In Sweden, allowed medical cannabis consumption
2 Swedish patient included in the pilot program participants access to medical use of cannabis. Several tens of thousands of patients in Ukraine, a country in need of cannabinoid use oil or other means of applying incorporates various components of cannabis, including psychoactive. In each of the Nordic and Baltic countries, home to thousands of seriously ill people, which cannabinoid oil is vital for the survival of (maintaining the body in a viable state). In Canada, the USA, Israel, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic legally number of patients using cannabinoid oil or therapeutic cannabis has tens of thousands of people.
Despite the fact that at the legislative level in the country is allowed to use only industrial hemp as a food, in early February 2017 Sweden joined the list of countries in Europe, using cannabis for therapeutic purposes. 2 patients included in the pilot program participants access to medical use of cannabis.
Dr. Class Halting, an ardent supporter of reform and potential users of psychoactive cannabis suffering from chronic pain caused by spinal injury, says that the changes are not large, but it is able to contribute to all in need of such a medicinal product people.
Supporters of the legalization of medical cannabis in Sweden, defending his point of view, refer to the medical journal the PNAS, the pages of which are set out the facts of the efficacy of cannabis for therapeutic purposes in the treatment of epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, seizure of chronic pain, as well as its ability to improve the overall health of cancer patients , sparing them from nausea after undergoing chemotherapy. Dr. Halting sure that the threat to human health in the therapeutic use of cannabis for medical purposes is minimal.
Supporters of the reform emphasize the public's attention on the fact that, until recently, Sweden has remained one of the most konservatinyh European countries in relation to cannabis, while other countries, including the next-door neighbors, in varying degrees, recognized the medicinal properties cannabisa and legalize the consumption of oil-CBD. For example Norwegian citizens since the beginning of 2015 go to "medical mission" in the Netherlands, and in the autumn of last year the government allowed them to import the necessary quantity of hemp oil in the mail. Since 2018, Denmark has launched a test trial of medical cannabis distribution system, which will involve about 500 people in Finland and seriously ill are allowed to import a limited number of cannabinoid oil.
Comment of the Association "Ukrainian industrial hemp"
Doctors say that in each of the Scandinavian and Baltic countries, home to thousands of seriously ill people, which cannabinoid oil is vital for the survival of (maintaining the body in a viable state). In Canada (36 million. Inhabitants), the USA (325 million.), Israel (8.5 million.), The Netherlands (17m.), Czech Republic (10.5 million.) The number of patients to legally use the cannabinoid oil or therapeutic cannabis has tens of thousands of people. Given the population of Ukraine, we can confidently say that tens of thousands of patients in our country require the use of cannabinoid oil or other means of applying incorporates various components of cannabis, including psychoactive. At the same time, there does not exist the legal mechanisms for the use as a cannabinoid oil, and other components of cannabis for medical purposes.
Information taken from the site http://tku.org.ua