The Ministry of Citizenship launched a 76-page booklet on the cannabis medicinal, which distorts information that exists about the health benefits of its substances (cannabinoids). According to the text, the plant was once again discussed in Brazil, based on “low quality” scientific information. THE cannabis is presented as a drug that causes dependence, schizophrenia, depression and anxiety.
The Government document is a guide prepared by Senapred (National Secretariat for Drug Care and Prevention) in partnership with the ministries of Women, Family and Human Rights, Infrastructure, and Justice and Public Security. Unfortunately, another disservice to Health with the public resource.
Patient associations reacted. Lawyer Maragarete Brito, executive director of Apepi (Support to Patients and Cannabis Research) organized a petition (if you want to access it click here). “This petition was a collective work and reviewed by several hands. Upon reaching 50,000 signatures, the document will be delivered to the Federal Government in order to ask for a retraction regarding the booklet, which places marijuana as a drug of death”, explains Margarete . The disapproval note points out that there are more than 28,000 scientific research on the use of medical cannabis in the PubMed database alone.
The booklet is composed of 11 chapters, which deconstruct the advances in scientific discoveries about the components of the plant, which began in 1964, with the Bulgarian-Israeli scientist Raphael Mechoulam, in 1964, and took a great leap forward with the involvement of large centers of health and researchers. Medical cannabis is indicated as therapy at the National Cancer Institute in the USA. The Government mixes marijuana purchased on the parallel market with substances derived from Cannabis, which are phytocannabinoids, which become health products, in the form of oil, for example. But the booklet says “there is no such thing as medical marijuana.”
Neuroscientist Sidarta Ribeiro, deputy director of the Brain Institute at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, often compares medicinal cannabis with the same revolution that antibiotics made in medicine. The world’s understanding of Cannabis has changed so much that of the 50 American States, 38 have legalized medicinal Cannabis, precisely because scientific advances show that these herbal substances actually help health.
There are countless testimonies from patients who have found some quality of life amidst the severe sequelae of chronic diseases with cannabis therapy. It is worth remembering the emotional testimony of Senator Mara Gabrilli, in September 2019, about the possibility of life that Cannabis medicines brought. Victim of a car accident, the senator became quadriplegic at the height of her youth.
“I move very little from the neck down, but I move a lot more than I ever did before, because I was a person lying down, who breathed in a machine, who didn’t speak, who didn’t sit, who didn’t feel and who didn’t move. .” Gabrilli’s testimony was given during a meeting of the Human Rights Commission that discussed acceptance for PL 399/2015 to pass through Congress in 2019.
The misuse of the public machine to distort scientific facts is a resource used since the beginning of the government of Jair Bolsonaro. In April 2021, with the serious health crisis, caused by Covid, which accounted for 600,000 deaths, the Federal Supreme Court ordered the Senate to install a CPI (Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry) to investigate the parallel cabinet of chloroquine and the denialism of the Government. about the disease.
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