This Brazil NGO Grows Medical Cannabis To Help Patients With Seizures
News 18Surrounded by barbed wire and an electric fence, marijuana plants flourish under the bright sun on a farm in a mountainous area outside Rio de Janeiro. It belongs, in fact, to a pioneering Brazilian NGO engaged in the production of medical cannabis to help patients with seizures. So she founded the Medical Cannabis Research and Patient Support Association, or Apepi, which produces artisanal therapeutic oils made from cannabis to help patients with conditions similar to her daughter’s. Today, their farm — about two hours by car from the Brazilian capital — has 2,000 plants growing there to help patients with severe autism, multiple sclerosis and epilepsy. – ‘People have prejudices’- On a recent visit to the farm, which is protected by an electric fence and barbed wire, agricultural engineer Diogo Fonseca made his way among marijuana plants growing in large black pots and marked with the names of their different varieties: Purple Wreck, Schanti, Doctor, Harle Tsu, Solar, CBG.
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