A seller displays containers with CBD for vaporizers during the 4th edition of the ExpoWeed cannabis fair in Mexico City, on Aug. 31, 2019. Published Monday, September 2, 2019 7:34AM EDT
"She has taken very strong painkillers and what has worked best is cannabis," said Gracia, who has been administering cannabis concentrate to her daughter for the past year. In that time, she says, her daughter's convulsions have diminished noticeably. The Mexican Supreme Court in August ordered the Health Ministry to publish guidelines for medicinal cannabis use within 180 days.
Users have been lobbying for more than a decade to decriminalize consumption of marijuana and its derivatives. The government has at times put obstacles in their way, but that dynamic is expected to change under President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who took office Dec. 1. His interior minister has called for decriminalization and regulation of illicit drugs so as to take away power from the cartels and stop punishing users.
The civic group Mexico SOS says Mexico is the second-biggest producer of cannabis in the world, with the plant grown across 16,500 hectares . Mexico's climate and cheap labour allow cultivation year-round. She said her prejudices melted three years ago after her mother turned to marijuana for relief from severe chronic back pain. "She had a crisis of pain for which not even morphine helped," Hernandez said.
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