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Spain is lagging behind in the regulation of medical cannabis. Patients denounce they are being abandoned by a passive government that denies them legal access to the treatment they need, despite scientific evidence. The OECM calls for urgent legalization of medical cannabis because patients cannot keep waiting. Keep reading.
The Spanish Observatory of Medical Cannabis (abbreviated to OECM in Spanish) held a press conference on Thursday, September 14, in which medical patients and experts criticised Spain for lagging behind in the regulation and legalization of medical cannabis. Patients feel abandoned by a government that does not allow them have legal access to a cannabis-based treatment. Despite the scientific and medical evidence – which supports its medicinal and therapeutic benefits for multiple diseases and disorders – collected over decades of research, the government takes unreasonably small steps when it comes to cannabis. But patients cannot wait forever and need the government to act urgently.
The OECM, an…
