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"Medicine" for stress after the war, Zelensky legalizes cannabis in the middle of the battle with Russia!

2024-02-16 13:19:13Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
"Medicine" for stress after the war, Zelensky legalizes cannabis in
PHOTO: Vladimir Zelensky

The president,  Vladimir Zelensky, has signed a bill legalizing the medical use of cannabis in Ukraine. 

Officials in Kiev argue that the use of medical cannabis will help soldiers and civilians deal with post-traumatic stress disorder, a syndrome widely seen amid the ongoing conflict with Russia.

"A draft law on regulating the circulation of plants from the hemp class... has been signed by the president," the Ukrainian parliament said in a statement on Thursday.

Ukrainian lawmakers overwhelmingly approved the bill in a 248-16 vote in December. They will now work on the necessary regulations to allow the import of cannabis-based products, as the development of domestic cultivation will take more time.

The law will enter into force in six months and "will regulate the circulation of hemp plants for medical and industrial purposes, (as well as) scientific and scientific-technical activities in order to expand the access of patients to the necessary treatment of oncological diseases and post-traumatic stress disorders acquired as a result of war," the text says.

An independent European medical cannabis consultant, Hanna Hlushchenko, who has worked with the Ukrainian pro-marijuana lobby, told Forbes that her estimate is that "the first products will be on the market in the third or fourth quarter of this year." year ".

President Zelensky had promoted the move as a way for Ukrainians to ease pain and anxiety, arguing that Ukraine should follow Western examples.

"All the world's best practices, all the most effective policies, all the solutions, no matter how difficult or unusual they may seem to us, should be implemented in Ukraine," Zelensky said in the country's parliament last year.

Critics of the law, which include former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, have argued that it is deeply flawed and will allow " trillion-dollar drug businesses and drug mafias to get even richer in the country ."


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