Brazil Court Allows Medicinal Home Grows - Judge Requests Opponents Stop Mixing Personal Moral & Religious Views With Science

In international cannabis news, a high court in Brazil this week gave authorization to three medical patients to grow cannabis for medicinal pain relief.

Brazilian law currently limits the medical use of marijuana-derived products to imported goods, so this is a big move to allow home grows.

It’s expected that the decision will set precedence to be applied across their country in similar cases.

This court decision follows last weeks demonstration by Brazilian citizens who protested in favor of legalizing medicinal cannabis.

Judge Rogério Schietti said the court had to be the one to finally take action on cannabis, because the government had failed to make a decision on the issue, similar to the current situation with the US federal governments lack of action.

Judge Schietti pointed out how the opposition to cannabis is often basing their reasoning on something that really should have nothing to do with politics, namely: religion and personal moral ideas. He said the arguments against legalizing cannabis are “moralistic. It often has a religious nature, based on dogmas, on false truths, stigmas,”
​“Let us stop this prejudice, this moralism that delays the development of this issue … and many times clouds the minds of Brazilian judges.”  

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