In Estonia, once again raises the issue of the need to allow the legal use of therapeutic cannabis
We consider not only the increase in the number of jobs and additional revenue funds to the budgets of different levels, but also the possibility of "launching" of other kinds of related activities, in particular the development of "medical tourism".
Green Party of Estonia to the Riigikogu (State Assembly) was put on the need regulatory enable the use of psychoactive cannabis for medical purposes. In connection with the receipt of official documents in the office of the Estonian Parliament, this treatment of one of the leading political forces of the country will be considered by the Commission for Social Affairs of the State Assembly.
Representatives of the Green Party of Estonia in the official petition to emphasize the country's parliament on the need for implementation of the pan-European trends aimed at the legal provision of legal psychoactive hemp cultivation, harvesting it, as well as the processing in the interests of the pharmaceutical industry to provide medical care to patients in need thereof. It is proposed to have become a traditional mechanism for dispensing medicines from psychoactive constituent of cannabis - a recipe authorized to carry out this type of activity of medical personnel. On the positive possibilities of the use of cannabis for medical purposes is considered not only an increase in the number of jobs and additional revenue funds to the budgets of different levels, but also the possibility of "launching" of other kinds of related activities, in particular the development of "medical tourism". Management believes that the Green Party of Estonia, in the case of adoption of relevant legislation, to be able to visit patients from neighboring European Union countries, the treatment of which can help the therapeutic use of psychoactive cannabis, but they are not able to receive adequate medical care due to lack of opportunities in their countries of Use cannabisa for medical purposes.
Comment of the Association "Ukrainian industrial hemp"
This is not the first attempt to initiate a change in the regulatory framework to ensure the possibility of legal psychoactive use of cannabis for medical purposes. In February 2016 parliamentary legal committee of the Riigikogu has a similar collective appeal was rejected, passed in November 2015 for consideration by the Commission known Estonian writer and controversial politician Kaur Kender. During a public debate on this issue, which was attended by representatives of the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Interior supporters medical use psychoactive hemp failed to convince government officials to the feasibility of establishing the relevant legal conditions.
Information taken from the site http://tku.org.ua