NGO grows medical cannabis despite strict Brazil rulesBy Eugenia Logiuratto / AFP, RIO DE JANEIROSurrounded 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 to a pioneering Brazilian nongovernmental organization (NGO) engaged in the production of medical cannabis to help people with seizures. Margarete Brito, a lawyer by training, first started growing cannabis several years ago to relieve the seizures of her daughter, Sofia, now 12, who has epilepsy. Cannabis plants grow at the Medical Cannabis Research and Patient Support Association production farm in Paty dos Alferes, Brazil, on Sept. 9. The police eventually realized the farm was a medical cannabis plantation, apologized and left, Brito said.

Source: Taipei Times September 25, 2021 15:56 UTC