San Marino. Denies an old woman cannabis therapy despite advanced Parkinson’s
Cannabis therapy denied elderly woman: “Every pejorative day”
ANTONIO FABBRI – The 85-year-old lady of the farmhouse continues to struggle to feed and eat, as well as having to endure advanced Parkinson’s disease, which causes the lady to stiffen her muscle tone. All this while therapy with a therapeutic cannabis base was denied, in order not to clarify questions of opportunity in the administration of this treatment, considered instead an effective attempt by the geriatrician in agreement with the neurologist. To justify the refusal, the absence of implementing decrees of the law approved last spring is also foreshadowed, yet, at the same time, many patients in the Republic are subjected to therapy, even with appreciable benefits. The law on the subject, therefore, has already been approved, and it is not clear why, in this specific serious case, it is not implemented. (…)
Article taken from The Information of San Marino
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