Health Care

Peru approves regulations for medicinal marijuana

Regulations governing the use of medical marijuana, or cannabis, were published today in the official gazette, El Peruano, 15 months after Law 30681 legalized its use for medicinal and therapeutic purposes.

The regulations cover guidelines and procedures for research, farming and production limits, importation, and the marketing and sale of medicinal marijuana and its byproducts. It also  outlines the procedures for medical prescriptions, including a registry of patients/users.

European countries are among the most progressive in using medical cannabis, but the list is growing. It is legal in Canada (where it is also legal for recreational purposes) and Australia, in some U.S. states, and a growing number of countries in Latin America — Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay and Brazil, and now Peru.

The bill to authorize the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes was introduced to Congress by Alberto de Belaunde, now an independent but at the time a member of the governing PPK party, and signed into law by President Kuczynski in November 2017.

Since then, some medical prescriptions were being issued but its use was limited, waiting for the regulations. These will now allow a wider use and even controlled production in the country.

Medical research into marijuana shows it is effective in cutting down on seizures in people with epilepsy, helps ease pain, nausea, and loss of appetite in people who have cancer and HIV, and eases multiple sclerosis symptoms such as muscle stiffness and spasms, pain, and frequent urination.  The products are usually in the form of oils, pills and creams. In many countries it is also sold in dry form, which you can either smoke, inhale through a vaporizer or mix in foods (maybe in the time-worn fashion of brownies, as in the 1968 film “Alice B. Toklas” or a 1993 episode of the British sit-com Coronation Street).

In January this year, the World Health Organisation wrote to the United Nations to recommend that cannabis and cannabis resin be deleted from the Schdule IV of the Single Convention of Drugs, which lists narcotics that are particularly harmful to human health and have no therapeutic properties.

3 Comments

  1. Kevin Stables

    Coronation Street is more a soap than a sit com.

  2. It won’t heal anything, but will create a fade well-being. People are going to be deceived and and depending on the situation to have to use it forever. It’s horrible. I live in USA and see it. They will give a law, there will be places for homeless whose only live in the addiction and don’t want nothing to do with life.

    • Raul Diego Nelson Falch

      I assume you know about endocanabinoids..The endocannabinoid system (ECS), comprised of cannabinoid receptors, endocannabinoid molecules, and their metabolic enzymes, is a crucial molecular system that the body uses to help maintain homeostasis.
      Endocannabinoids are bioactive lipids that have the potential to signal through cannabinoid receptors to modulate the functional activities of a variety of immune cells. … Their immediate effective action on immune function may be at localized sites in the periphery and within the central nervous system..

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