Opinion – Cannabis Inc.: New guides break down cannabis for doctors and patients

The market growth of cannabis opened space for professionals, such as lawyers and doctors, to produce specialized content. This past Wednesday (18), an e-book was launched with the steps to judicialize access to CBD (cannabidiol, a substance derived from the plant with no psychoactive effect).

Complete Guide to Judicialization of Cannabis Products, by lawyer Fábio Camata Candello, was edited by the Cannabis & Saúde portal. The content is very didactic and synthetic (44 pages). It brings a compilation of the main regulations published by Anvisa (Health Surveillance Agency) and points out legal ways for the patient to get CBD funding by the SUS (Unified Health Service) or by the health plan. Another route that has been widely explored is the request for habeas corpus, to plant and produce medicinal oil by hand.

In 2022, Cannabis originated 55 processes registered by the Justice of the capital of São Paulo. In most of them (80%), the plaintiffs managed to obtain an injunction to treat themselves for free”, writes the author. In the state of São Paulo, he accounts for 341 lawsuits, in the same period.

A more comprehensive work, Medicinal Cannabis – Prescription Guide (R$ 119) was written by 33 authors, including psychiatrists, psychologists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, hematologists, acupuncturists and pharmacologists. Many of them are well-known in cannabinoid medicine. This is the case of neurosurgeon Pedro Pierro Neto and physician Carolina Noceti, founder of the International Cannabis Academy. The book brings together more than 500 updated bibliographic references and is sold online.

Organized by Anandamida publishing house, it is divided into 24 chapters. “We made a prescription guide, which reports adverse reactions, drug interactions, dosages, a presentation of the functioning of the endocannabinoid system and pharmacology. Then we directed all this knowledge to 20 more known pathologies that respond well to treatment with medicinal oil”, sums up Victor Vilhena, 42, family doctor, one of the book’s editors.