Federal judge Antonio Claudio Macedo da Silva, holder of the 10th Criminal Court of the Federal Court in Brasília, granted safe conduct to a patient suffering from anxiety and insomnia to be able to grow marijuana at home for medicinal purposes. The disease causes psychological consequences such as lack of memory, concentration and panic attacks.
He also informs that, among several treatments, he performed experimental therapy based on cannabidiol oil, an extract derived from Cannabis (CBD), “which had improvement effects not shown in orthodox treatments”.
The man filed a habeas corpus claiming that his health condition was causing him poor memory, concentration and panic attacks, and that he tried several treatments, the best of which was an experimental therapy based on CBD oil. In his allegations, he claims that it is not possible to regularly acquire drugs with CBD “due to the exorbitant prices in the national territory”.
In this context, it argues that there is no alternative other than planting Cannabis for the purpose of therapeutic use, guaranteeing the medical treatment provided by the patient.
In its decision, disclosed in this fifthOn Thursday (2), the magistrate determines that the Federal District police must “refrain from promoting any acts that threaten physical freedom, as well as from seizing materials and supplies intended for their health treatment, or even destroying them. them”.
The judge also says, in his decision, that the police even refrain from approaching the patient even during the journey between “the residence and research institutes for assessing the quality of these inputs and also during the journey of the imported seeds, until it is no longer necessary to use and cultivate in natura of the plant Cannabis Sativa”.
