Marina Abramović travels through Brazil in search of personal healing…
Mother Plant
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The film follows a collective of mothers over their four-year fight for the legalization of cannabis oil to be used as a medicinal treatment for their children. Despite a scientific community supporting the effectiveness of the oil, they continue to face a legal system that not only fails to protect them but also pursues and criminalizes them.
They will embark on a path of resistance, seeking the creation and regulation of a law that advocates for the right to health, challenging prejudices and economic interests.
"The documentary that demands the right to health." — Luis Coro, Noticiario Sur
Citation
Main credits
López, Francisco (film director)
López, Francisco (screenwriter)
López, Francisco (film producer)
Espolsino, Alejandro (film director)
Espolsino, Alejandro (screenwriter)
Espolsino, Alejandro (film producer)
Costa, Lisandro (film director)
Costa, Lisandro (screenwriter)
Costa, Lisandro (film producer)
Other credits
Cinematography, Francisco López, Alejandro Espolsino; editing, Martín Delrieux, Eduardo Feller; music, Santiago Capriglione, Lautaro van Meegroot, Martín Larroudé.
Distributor subjects
Health + Aging; Culture + Identity; Family; Women; Criminal Justice; Science + Technology; Sociology; South America; Latin American Studies; Environment + SustainabilityKeywords
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Self-cultivation, self-cultivation!
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Self-cultivation, self-cultivation!
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We are a group of
mothers and families
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who grow cannabis for our children
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with very serious encephalopathies.
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From epilepsy, cerebral palsy, autism
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whatever you can think of
.
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There are many pathologies and
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for a long time we had
our children multi-medicated,
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super-doped, staring at nothing,
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drooling for fourteen years.
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Suddenly we give them
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an extract of a natural plant and
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we have connected children,
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looking into each other's eyes,
trying to speak...
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We have solved our health problems
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by growing for our relatives.
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Now we have a security problem.
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If somebody enter my house to rob
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I can´t call the police
because my yard is full of plants.
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This ranges from incoherent
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to a violation of human rights,
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the right to health.
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The more the issue is debated
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in this house of democracy,
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with more inclusion of legislators,
the better.
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To unify the struggle,
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those of us on the side
of self-cultivation, please!
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I am Laura,
the mother of Josefina Vilumbrales,
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the first girl for whom
the ANMAT authorized
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the entry of
Charlotte's cannabis oil.
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I prepared a few words to read.
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Legislators,
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life put me in this unimaginable
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unimaginable, place.
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For me, everything is very clear:
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enough of interests,
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pettiness and unfounded prejudices
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that prohibit the right to life.
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Stop pushing families into
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the hands of scammers
and drug dealers
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to achieve, in some way,
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to ease the pain of those we love.
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Gentlemen, any substance
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used in excess becomes a drug.
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I had my daughter drugged
with four medications
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that could cause her blindness,
fulminant hepatitis.
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I don't come here to create pity.
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I come to ask that,
once and for all,
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you work for our children,
for our sick people,
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with respect, with responsibility.
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I will not leave without
a positive answer,
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without a legal decision
that allows life
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to people as my daughter,
that suffers from pain.
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Because what you
just saw from Josefina
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moved you and lasted 4 minutes.
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We have lived with this for 9,
10, 15, 20 years!
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MOTHERPLANT
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It was a normal pregnancy,
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it was a Caesarean birth,
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but was planned like that.
Everything normal.
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5 months later
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we began to notice
something strange in her...
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she didn´t do the same things
than Facu,
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her brother, when he was her age.
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When she was 6 months
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she didn´t sit alone
as all the babies do.
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She did not hold herself sit.
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At 7 months she begins
to have spasms,
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which we didn´t know were spasms.
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She begins to bend like this,
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to throw her eyes back,
to bend forward, as if she had colic
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It was heartbreaking...
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I asked my sisters to make an
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appointment at
the Garraham hospital.
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On Sunday morning we left
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to Buenos Aires,
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Josefina came in having a seizure,
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so they immediately attended to her.
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They told us: she have to stay,
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don't be scared,
it's for observation
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We were hospitalized for a month.
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Next day she was diagnosed.
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It was West Syndrome because
of the form of the seizures,
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because of the developmental delay...
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Everything that she acquired
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was lost with the seizures.
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If she learned to hold
the pacifier with her hand,
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with the seizures
everything was erased.
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It was starting over again.
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There are epilepsies that
are controlled with medication
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but refractory epilepsy is different,
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she took a medication
that worked for 10 days
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and she came back
with strong seizures.
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They added another
and another, and another.
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She had up to 700 spasms a day.
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Later we found out that
each spasm is a seizure,
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so, she had up to
700 seizures a day.
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The developmental delay
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caused by the disease
needs kinesiology.
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She does speech therapy,
occupational therapy,
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equine therapy, hydrotherapy,
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psychomotricity...
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I mean, we have
an activity every day.
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She is like a teenager
in that sense.
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But, well, that is
helping her a lot.
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Once I met a mom from Venezuela
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who was also treating
her daughter there.
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She tells me:
Why don't you try cannabis?
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I look at her because
I had never heard
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that marijuana could
have this therapeutic effect.
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I always heard the bad,
like: It's a drug...
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I look at her and say:
With cannabis?
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With marijuana?
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Rebeca, that´s her name, says:
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Yes, my friend's
daughter in the US
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is trying it out and
it changed her life
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Surf the Internet,
do some research!
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What's going on, pumpkin?
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So we started,
we make the oil for Jose,
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and 10 days after taking it,
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Josefina stops having crisis.
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The first thing we noticed
was that she was calm,
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but we also wanted to try
that oil from the US,
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which was high in CBD
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and helps people with epilepsy
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control their seizures much better.
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We researched, got informed,
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until we managed to bring the oil
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and began to test it in Josefina.
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After 3 months of taking that oil,
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6 months of treatment in total,
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Josefina stops having crisis
for 3 full months.
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We had already reduced
2 anticonvulsants
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and when the crisis stops,
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it was wonderful for us.
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Very good, Miss.
Stop, I give you...
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so you don't spit it out.
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She started to connect.
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The first time she's looked at me...
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crossing her gaze was...
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I mean, it's like...
I don't forget it anymore.
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It´s very hard when you can´t have
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that connection with your child,
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you cannot have that peace.
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When I crossed my gaze
with her, it was...
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the most beautiful.
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I said: Well, this is the way.
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My daughter
has refractory epilepsy,
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6 anticonvulsants,
years of suffering.
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She had awful side effects,
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the most painful that a mother
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can see in her child.
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Javiera was pulling out
fingernails and toenails,
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bleeding and feeling no pain.
Same with hair.
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Or, suddenly, she hit her
head against a wall,
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against the ground... and
that was our day to day.
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So, of course,
we desperately looked for help
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both in Chile and abroad.
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There was no other alternative
because this was it.
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We have to use all
these anticonvulsants
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to control her seizures.
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I don't know anything.
I have to learn everything.
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Here we will to
teach you everything.
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We started with Ana María.
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We saw her one day talking about
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how cannabis was being
used a lot in the US
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to treat certain ailments
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like epilepsy,
with very good results.
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I wrote her on Twitter,
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imagine how things are,
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I did not expect an answer
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Ana María is a famous
actress in our country
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So, imagine all the people who
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write her on her social networks.
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But she answered me the same day
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It was a Thursday and on Saturday
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we met at 9 am in a cafe.
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Imagine how things turned out
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from one day to the next.
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She gave us a lot of information
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a lot, a lot of information,
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and among that were some links
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about how to make oil.
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On Sunday I went buying
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from dealers.
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I bought several months
buds from dealers;
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I never bought the prepared oil.
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I bought the buds and
watching the video I make the oil.
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A week later, I wrote to Ana María
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to tell that my daughter
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was much better,
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that the crises had subsided
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and that she was
no longer hitting herself.
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Then, she tells me:
What a good news!
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I also have a good report
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from other family that
did the same than you
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whose child didn´t sleep for days
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and when she took the oil,
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she slept all night.
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We will go on with this
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Another person wrote her
and this is how started.
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We were 9 families buying
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on the black market
because there was no alternative.
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All of us trying,
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then getting together
to make the oil...
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They were hours, hours...
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They were 8 hours of evaporation
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because we had no idea
how to do it,
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we did it in a water bath,
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and they were hours,
hours, of evaporation.
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We did a seminar and
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110 families came
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from all over Chile.
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After those 110 families,
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it began to grow, grow, grow...
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The Foundation looked after
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more than 8.000 families,
who are cultivating in Chile.
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There are 3 large
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multicenter clinical studies:
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one for oncologic patients,
another for chronic pain
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and another for
refractory epilepsy.
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3 public hospitals are
involved in this project
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and the municipal health centers...
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Ok. Do do you know,
more or less,
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what stage they are in,
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what they are doing? Which
?
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I know exactly, of course!
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How could I not?
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If I´m at the head of the project.
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Daya Foundation is established
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as an organization dedicated
to scientific research
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promoting cannabis-based
clinical studies in Chile,
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we have already started the first
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of 9 studies that we promote...
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We are committed
to work directly
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with the community
from the beginning,
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empowering patients and
enabling an available path
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which is, undoubtedly,
self-cultivation.
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The only way that
each of us can find out
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when and how to water is by paying
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close attention
to the texture of the earth.
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This plant broke, right?
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When it was first born,
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it only had 4 leaves,
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2 pairs of leaves,
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2 main and the 2 following.
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The 2 main ones broke.
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Like a premature pruning.
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Yes, an early premature
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but it still was able
to take this structure.
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It gave me 2 sticks instead of
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the main one, that came out.
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The same thing that happens
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as we get closer to
the top of the plant.
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I can cut the bud
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and it will tell these branches
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to grow more, right?
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Which means that
she continues to grow
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in branches, leaves
and structure.
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How do we harvest it?
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We cut it off completely, right?
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Once we cut it from the stem
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we can hang it.
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If I get closer and see
the majority crystalline,
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transparent, I have to wait.
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Because when they are milky
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is when we see
the highest production
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or the production of the
cannabinoid reaches the peak,
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which is what we need,
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which is the medicine,
the resin that we obtain.
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Now is planted.
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How cute. Good.
Applause, applause. Good.
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The immense emotion
of seeing someone
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recovering their quality of life
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I don't know...
a family that had
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a 9 years old son
that couldn´t walk
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and suddenly begins to give
his first steps.
00:18:18.312 --> 00:18:21.278
Or a little daughter
who lived isolated,
00:18:21.377 --> 00:18:23.546
disconnected
and began to connect,
00:18:23.546 --> 00:18:26.952
can say mom to her mother,
look her in the eyes,
00:18:26.952 --> 00:18:30.349
eat through her mouth
and not through a probe...
00:18:30.349 --> 00:18:34.442
Small things that for a family
that has a healthy child,
00:18:34.442 --> 00:18:37.049
could sounds ordinary.
00:18:37.049 --> 00:18:39.064
Believe me that for these families
00:18:39.163 --> 00:18:41.329
this change is absolute, radical.
00:19:00.556 --> 00:19:02.596
Helllo, hello! How are you?
00:19:03.195 --> 00:19:05.931
Welcome to the Holy Land!
00:19:23.902 --> 00:19:27.658
As you can see,
we grow the plants in pots.
00:19:27.983 --> 00:19:31.518
Each plant is in 500 liters of a
00:19:31.616 --> 00:19:34.220
specially prepared substrate,
00:19:34.220 --> 00:19:36.255
unlike last year
00:19:36.255 --> 00:19:38.702
that we cultivate directly
on the ground.
00:19:40.531 --> 00:19:42.880
We are looking for concentrations
00:19:42.880 --> 00:19:45.008
and variety of cannabinoids
00:19:45.008 --> 00:19:47.669
for the studies
to be done this year.
00:19:47.768 --> 00:19:49.814
In this case we are looking for
00:19:49.913 --> 00:19:52.701
both THC and CBD,
00:19:52.702 --> 00:19:54.531
and also CBG.
00:20:09.530 --> 00:20:14.078
Normally, direct work with
the plant is done by women
00:20:14.078 --> 00:20:18.708
who are always more careful
than we men.
00:20:18.708 --> 00:20:21.328
Right now, they are eliminating
00:20:21.328 --> 00:20:24.031
and removing all the yellow leaves
00:20:24.130 --> 00:20:28.138
which nutrients have been
already absorved by the plant.
00:20:28.138 --> 00:20:30.223
The effect of yellowing
00:20:30.223 --> 00:20:32.141
is shown when the plant
00:20:32.240 --> 00:20:34.707
begins to absorb
its energy reserves
00:20:34.707 --> 00:20:39.602
which is a desired effect at
the second stage of maturation
00:20:39.602 --> 00:20:43.678
the loss of nitrogen reserves
to transform them
00:20:43.777 --> 00:20:47.588
into sugars and later resin,
which is what interests us.
00:20:53.064 --> 00:20:56.929
Public Health and Safety
Commission of Argentina
00:20:56.929 --> 00:21:00.311
wanted to come to see
how we work here,
00:21:00.409 --> 00:21:02.686
how we transform reality,
00:21:02.686 --> 00:21:05.021
the modifications to Law 20.000
00:21:05.021 --> 00:21:07.376
processed in the
Chamber of Deputies.
00:21:07.376 --> 00:21:11.130
They meet health professionals
00:21:11.130 --> 00:21:12.759
from Daya Foundation and
00:21:12.760 --> 00:21:15.572
a group of patients
who also attended.
00:21:15.671 --> 00:21:17.698
Somehow, they saw
that the possibility
00:21:17.797 --> 00:21:20.446
of implementing this
effectively exists,
00:21:20.446 --> 00:21:23.764
it is possible to do it
from organized civil society,
00:21:23.764 --> 00:21:25.524
which is what we did.
00:21:26.177 --> 00:21:28.295
To be able to help,
00:21:28.295 --> 00:21:30.754
to tell the parliamentarians
00:21:30.853 --> 00:21:32.907
that CBD alone was not useful.
00:21:32.907 --> 00:21:37.017
Because here the import
was already allowed
00:21:37.116 --> 00:21:40.556
but why would you be
spending 300, 400 dollars
00:21:40.557 --> 00:21:43.160
if you can spend 100 dollars,
00:21:43.160 --> 00:21:46.860
50 dollars, having a homegrown?
00:21:46.959 --> 00:21:50.665
Also, CBD does not
work for everyone.
00:21:50.665 --> 00:21:53.229
We received here
very foresighted people
00:21:53.328 --> 00:21:56.363
and a group of mothers
showed them
00:21:56.363 --> 00:21:58.772
the different realities saying:
00:21:58.871 --> 00:22:01.175
He uses CBD, he uses THC.
00:29:18.232 --> 00:29:21.305
Chamber of Deputies
of the Argentine Nation
00:29:21.305 --> 00:29:25.805
Treatment of Law 27,350
Medicinal use of the cannabis plant.
00:29:32.695 --> 00:29:35.000
Today what society has built
00:29:35.099 --> 00:29:37.921
is self-cultivation,
solidarity cultivation,
00:29:37.921 --> 00:29:40.358
collective cultivation
What is there to do?
00:29:40.359 --> 00:29:42.901
To give a regulatory framework
00:29:42.901 --> 00:29:47.077
to give quality and security
to what is received,
00:29:47.176 --> 00:29:51.581
building possibilities
for everyone.
00:29:52.563 --> 00:29:56.450
Today narcotics law
penalizes mothers
00:29:56.450 --> 00:30:00.457
who need self-cultivation
to guarantee
00:30:00.457 --> 00:30:04.156
the cannabis oil treatment
for their children.
00:30:04.254 --> 00:30:06.694
Put yourself in the shoes
of these mothers
00:30:06.694 --> 00:30:09.529
look them in the face
and be conscientious
00:30:09.530 --> 00:30:11.938
when we vote on this law.
We can change
00:30:11.938 --> 00:30:14.857
the lives of many people
who have ailments
00:30:14.857 --> 00:30:18.152
who are having a hard time.
Thank you.
00:30:23.649 --> 00:30:28.603
The debate is focused on
the medical use of cannabis
00:30:28.603 --> 00:30:33.454
what is not authorized is the
homemade preparation of a medicine
00:30:33.553 --> 00:30:36.088
because we would be
legalizing healing
00:30:36.089 --> 00:30:38.896
and that goes against
the established norms.
00:30:39.189 --> 00:30:41.639
There are different concepts.
00:30:41.639 --> 00:30:45.276
There are ideological
and political concepts
00:30:45.276 --> 00:30:47.623
and something that can´t be denied:
00:30:47.722 --> 00:30:50.198
drug trafficking is big
business in Argentina.
00:30:51.041 --> 00:30:53.131
Democracy!
00:31:02.488 --> 00:31:05.043
Well, let´s vote...
00:31:05.043 --> 00:31:07.549
It is affirmative.
00:31:07.549 --> 00:31:12.616
220 legislators
voted affirmatively,
00:31:13.531 --> 00:31:15.533
there were no negative votes
00:31:15.533 --> 00:31:17.968
and there was only one abstention.
00:31:19.015 --> 00:31:21.878
State will investigate, cultivate
00:31:21.878 --> 00:31:25.035
and produce because
we made changes,
00:31:25.035 --> 00:31:29.158
State must deliver, when ready,
the oil to the mothers.
00:31:32.090 --> 00:31:34.674
Goodwill was seen...
00:31:34.674 --> 00:31:36.826
The words self-cultivation
do not exist,
00:31:36.826 --> 00:31:38.949
but there is a shortcut to there.
00:31:38.949 --> 00:31:41.067
We will have to work hard
00:31:41.067 --> 00:31:44.639
and we will have to
control the State.
00:31:45.102 --> 00:31:47.615
It is urgent, it is imminent
00:31:47.714 --> 00:31:50.412
that this law be enacted
as soon as possible
00:31:50.511 --> 00:31:52.340
so that the State begins to produce
00:31:52.340 --> 00:31:54.522
because although there are patients
00:31:54.523 --> 00:31:57.253
who are cultivating because
is the only way
00:31:57.253 --> 00:31:59.679
there are also others who do not
00:31:59.679 --> 00:32:01.825
because they don't know how to do it,
00:32:01.924 --> 00:32:04.147
or because the criminal law
remains unclear
00:32:04.147 --> 00:32:06.226
and continues to criminalize.
00:32:06.325 --> 00:32:08.538
Today the drug law of
Argentina says
00:32:08.538 --> 00:32:11.130
that a mother has 4 to 15 years
00:32:11.130 --> 00:32:13.375
in prison if she cultivates.
00:32:13.375 --> 00:32:16.507
That is what we should
have modified today
00:32:16.606 --> 00:32:18.034
but it was not.
00:32:18.956 --> 00:32:20.956
Senate of the Argentine Nation
00:32:20.956 --> 00:32:24.456
Voting on law 27,350
Medicinal use of the cannabis plant.
00:32:25.218 --> 00:32:28.718
The free people
of the world respond:
00:32:28.718 --> 00:32:32.391
Health to the great
Argentinian people!
00:32:34.117 --> 00:32:36.386
Next, we are going to vote
00:32:36.386 --> 00:32:39.981
in particular and in general
on the bill.
00:32:39.981 --> 00:32:41.771
It is voted.
00:32:41.794 --> 00:32:44.581
58 affirmative votes
00:32:44.581 --> 00:32:47.522
0 negative votes, 0 abstentions.
00:32:47.522 --> 00:32:52.103
It is communicated to
the Executive Branch...
00:32:52.720 --> 00:32:55.218
May the laurels, that we knew
00:32:55.218 --> 00:32:59.610
how to obtain be eternal
00:33:01.631 --> 00:33:07.102
that we knew how to obtain
00:33:08.129 --> 00:33:10.119
Freedom! Freedom!
00:33:10.119 --> 00:33:13.489
No more prisoners for planting!
Freedom!
00:33:23.020 --> 00:33:25.184
Freedom to Adriana!
No more prisioners for planting!
00:33:25.184 --> 00:33:27.729
Freedom to nature!
00:33:28.552 --> 00:33:32.638
-Delfina needs Adri!
-More love, please!
00:33:34.891 --> 00:33:38.704
Freedom! Freedom!
00:33:38.998 --> 00:33:42.535
My mother has been deprived
of her freedom for 2 days.
00:33:42.661 --> 00:33:45.593
She cultivates because
she has osteoarthritis
00:33:45.692 --> 00:33:47.613
and it needs to be treated.
00:33:47.613 --> 00:33:50.053
For her medicine, nothing more.
00:33:50.053 --> 00:33:52.078
There is no proof of anything.
00:33:52.177 --> 00:33:54.485
My mother is not a dealer
00:33:54.485 --> 00:33:57.269
she must be released,
she is in poor health.
00:33:57.269 --> 00:33:59.715
My mom helps a lot of people.
00:33:59.814 --> 00:34:02.971
She helps a baby with
microcephaly, Delfina.
00:34:02.971 --> 00:34:05.517
Delfina can´t be without the oil.
00:34:05.901 --> 00:34:08.841
Adriana is not a criminal.
00:34:08.842 --> 00:34:11.489
Adriana is a good person,
00:34:11.588 --> 00:34:13.761
a good neighbor, a worker,
00:34:13.860 --> 00:34:15.765
who grew her plants
00:34:15.765 --> 00:34:17.746
to provide medicine
00:34:17.746 --> 00:34:19.732
and a better quality of life
00:34:19.732 --> 00:34:22.829
to a lot of people
who came to her.
00:34:27.187 --> 00:34:30.536
You should take a look
at the information you give
00:34:30.635 --> 00:34:33.740
because I told the
prosecution what you told me,
00:34:33.740 --> 00:34:37.253
and they assured me
it would be ready today.
00:34:37.254 --> 00:34:39.315
So, you gave me
the wrong appointment.
00:34:39.315 --> 00:34:41.951
They took the data from the email.
00:34:47.376 --> 00:34:49.593
I have house arrest,
00:34:49.593 --> 00:34:52.464
I left the prosecutor's
office´s email
00:34:52.464 --> 00:34:54.423
for you to pass the confirmation
00:34:54.423 --> 00:34:56.498
and they are telling me now
00:34:56.498 --> 00:34:58.678
if they have not, they won´t
00:34:58.777 --> 00:35:00.813
transfer me to the doctor
tomorrow.
00:35:00.813 --> 00:35:03.505
Today I am under house arrest.
00:35:03.505 --> 00:35:06.955
Well, they raided me on
Monday, February 20.
00:35:06.955 --> 00:35:10.916
I had 22 plants already grown.
00:35:10.916 --> 00:35:13.022
I grow only once a year,
00:35:13.121 --> 00:35:16.942
with that I cover both
my oil and Delfina.
00:35:16.942 --> 00:35:19.333
In a year, Delfina,
00:35:19.333 --> 00:35:21.834
from 20 seizures, went to none.
00:35:21.933 --> 00:35:25.333
She bit her arms in
each convulsion.
00:35:25.333 --> 00:35:27.623
Now, she doesn´t.
00:35:27.623 --> 00:35:30.592
She started with discharges...
00:35:31.751 --> 00:35:33.921
For Delfi, I had 3 plants
00:35:33.921 --> 00:35:36.080
that were only with CBD content,
00:35:36.080 --> 00:35:39.902
and another plant to make oil
00:35:40.001 --> 00:35:43.041
which is a hybrid of THC and CBD.
00:35:43.140 --> 00:35:45.362
I had the oil for 4 months.
00:35:45.362 --> 00:35:48.280
It took me a year to stabilize
that strain
00:35:48.280 --> 00:35:51.327
plus the plants they
cut in the garden.
00:35:54.523 --> 00:35:56.593
That moment was terrible,
00:35:56.691 --> 00:35:59.509
hearing the crack of the plants
00:35:59.509 --> 00:36:02.513
and knowing that each crack was
00:36:02.513 --> 00:36:06.656
one less syringe
for one more person.
00:36:07.176 --> 00:36:10.157
That hurt me a lot
and the police told me:
00:36:10.157 --> 00:36:14.113
Oh, everyone starts crying
when we cut the plants
00:36:15.005 --> 00:36:17.940
There you feel so much indignation,
because you say:
00:36:17.940 --> 00:36:20.707
I even do Reiki to that plant
00:36:20.707 --> 00:36:22.840
I take care of it with my life,
00:36:22.841 --> 00:36:25.061
I don´t go on vacation, nothing.
00:36:25.061 --> 00:36:27.476
The balance and love that gets
00:36:27.575 --> 00:36:30.539
when they were breaking
them like nothing,
00:36:30.638 --> 00:36:33.180
they peeled them off, so I said:
00:36:33.180 --> 00:36:36.026
This is
what we are.
00:36:50.802 --> 00:36:53.439
If you go back in the months,
00:36:53.439 --> 00:36:55.669
from the moment you had the seed;
00:36:55.768 --> 00:36:58.955
it started to germinate
and today it is that plant.
00:36:58.955 --> 00:37:02.098
Well, that time, that change,
that process...
00:37:02.098 --> 00:37:05.252
That is the plant:
the reconnection
00:37:05.351 --> 00:37:07.586
of one with nature itself.
00:37:09.250 --> 00:37:11.813
We wrote to Paulina Bobadilla
00:37:11.912 --> 00:37:14.822
before Mamá Cultiva
Argentina existed.
00:37:15.165 --> 00:37:17.092
Many mothers from Argentina
00:37:17.092 --> 00:37:20.152
got in contact with
Mamá Cultiva Chile
00:37:20.152 --> 00:37:22.352
when we didn't even dream of
00:37:22.352 --> 00:37:24.457
having a Mamá Cultiva Argentina.
00:37:24.555 --> 00:37:28.437
She gave us the
Fundación Daya recipe
00:37:28.437 --> 00:37:31.586
and almost all of us
learned with that recipe.
00:37:33.045 --> 00:37:36.206
It was incredible how our stories
repeated themselves.
00:37:36.206 --> 00:37:38.560
The same ones, crossing the border,
00:37:38.560 --> 00:37:42.283
they were the same stories,
00:37:42.382 --> 00:37:45.499
the same pains and the same hope
00:37:45.499 --> 00:37:47.506
of going out,
00:37:47.506 --> 00:37:50.129
of sleeping for more than 4 hours.
00:37:50.129 --> 00:37:52.258
4 hours we just asked...
00:37:52.951 --> 00:37:55.399
This is something that a mother
00:37:55.498 --> 00:37:57.963
gives to another mother.
It's like
00:37:58.557 --> 00:38:01.022
-It's heali... how is it?
-Healing
00:38:01.022 --> 00:38:03.414
Healing, of course.
It is a recipe...
00:38:03.414 --> 00:38:05.549
It's like with your grandmother:
00:38:05.549 --> 00:38:09.177
What hurts?
Make him an oregano tea.
00:38:09.177 --> 00:38:11.016
This was the same.
00:38:11.016 --> 00:38:13.706
Chilean mothers passing a recipe
00:38:13.706 --> 00:38:15.800
to Argentine mothers,
00:38:15.899 --> 00:38:18.896
who spread all that knowledge,
00:38:18.896 --> 00:38:21.141
plus our own experience
00:38:21.141 --> 00:38:23.347
and the things that one adds
00:38:23.446 --> 00:38:25.407
while going along the way.
00:38:25.407 --> 00:38:29.014
The first crop cost us a lot.
00:38:29.014 --> 00:38:31.080
But then you say:
00:38:31.080 --> 00:38:33.235
Ah, but it's easy
00:38:33.334 --> 00:38:35.301
to other mother
00:38:35.302 --> 00:38:39.190
Like... really, is like
doing exercise.
00:38:39.289 --> 00:38:43.632
Suddenly you are
an expert in cannabis.
00:38:43.632 --> 00:38:45.986
It's crazy.
00:38:46.525 --> 00:38:48.630
You who are an expert, tell us...
00:38:48.630 --> 00:38:52.578
I say: Am I an expert?
At what moment?
00:38:53.008 --> 00:38:55.372
The empowerment of mothers
00:38:55.372 --> 00:38:57.862
through the teaching of growers.
00:38:58.470 --> 00:39:01.558
That cultural syncretism,
00:39:03.168 --> 00:39:05.634
was the social interpellation,
00:39:05.634 --> 00:39:07.810
the strength and empowerment to
00:39:07.909 --> 00:39:10.396
challenge the health system,
00:39:10.690 --> 00:39:13.962
put ourselves in a
horizontal relationship
00:39:13.962 --> 00:39:18.664
and tell the professional:
we need this, right?
00:39:19.757 --> 00:39:21.879
Our sons,
00:39:22.501 --> 00:39:24.604
our daughters,
00:39:25.139 --> 00:39:28.198
have improved with this substance.
00:39:28.852 --> 00:39:32.782
The crisis have subsided,
but we do this as best we can.
00:39:32.782 --> 00:39:34.908
We need accompaniment.
00:39:48.649 --> 00:39:52.426
You have an engine that
produces high activity,
00:39:52.525 --> 00:39:55.285
but also it produces a large amount
00:39:55.286 --> 00:39:57.941
of heat and excess of activity
00:39:57.941 --> 00:40:01.939
so you need a
system that controls it.
00:40:02.104 --> 00:40:05.158
What the endocannabinoid system
00:40:05.158 --> 00:40:08.839
does is function as
the brain's coolant.
00:40:09.171 --> 00:40:12.491
It makes our brain to develop
its actions
00:40:12.491 --> 00:40:14.310
in a controlled way
00:40:14.310 --> 00:40:16.860
because in the absence
of these cannabinoids,
00:40:16.860 --> 00:40:19.222
neural systems overheat
00:40:19.321 --> 00:40:21.315
and excess information
00:40:21.414 --> 00:40:24.488
can begin to occur, right?
00:40:25.234 --> 00:40:27.604
That allows us to understand
00:40:27.604 --> 00:40:30.582
why cannabinoids can have
00:40:30.582 --> 00:40:33.839
a very interesting
therapeutic efficiency,
00:40:33.839 --> 00:40:37.168
in epilepsy, because epilepsy
00:40:37.266 --> 00:40:39.327
is the clinical manifestation
00:40:39.327 --> 00:40:42.906
of circuits that are
acting uncontrollably, right?
00:40:42.906 --> 00:40:45.045
That produce seizures because
00:40:45.045 --> 00:40:47.539
there is too much neuronal activity
00:40:47.539 --> 00:40:50.144
in some brain nuclei and
00:40:50.144 --> 00:40:54.519
it is seen, in a large
number of patients
00:40:54.618 --> 00:40:57.448
not in all, but in a large number
00:40:57.448 --> 00:40:59.723
that cannabis oil,
00:40:59.723 --> 00:41:01.748
different cannabis oils
00:41:01.748 --> 00:41:03.860
have properties to attenuate
00:41:03.860 --> 00:41:06.448
and even to eliminate
00:41:06.573 --> 00:41:08.443
the seizures completely.
00:41:22.447 --> 00:41:24.452
Cannabinoids are molecules
00:41:24.452 --> 00:41:26.487
that derive from terpenes,
00:41:26.487 --> 00:41:29.009
the most recognized is THC
00:41:29.108 --> 00:41:31.148
in which psychoactivity falls.
00:41:31.148 --> 00:41:34.120
Cannabinoids are
psychoactive molecules,
00:41:34.219 --> 00:41:36.082
produce effects at the brain level.
00:43:08.011 --> 00:43:10.528
Cannabinoids are like any other
00:43:10.528 --> 00:43:13.736
exogenous molecule
that one can ingest.
00:43:13.736 --> 00:43:15.854
They depend on the dose,
00:43:15.953 --> 00:43:17.889
on the administration,
00:43:17.988 --> 00:43:19.976
on the age of the person,
00:43:19.976 --> 00:43:22.061
the moment in life...
00:43:22.908 --> 00:43:25.096
That is why it is so varied and
00:43:25.096 --> 00:43:27.584
there is not an unique response
00:43:27.584 --> 00:43:30.190
from what THC and marijuana do.
00:43:30.191 --> 00:43:32.264
It can do a number of things,
00:43:32.362 --> 00:43:34.494
so for some people it can
00:43:34.494 --> 00:43:36.616
produce beneficial effects,
00:43:36.616 --> 00:43:38.618
one can say this is good for me
00:43:38.618 --> 00:43:40.570
and for other people don´t.
00:43:40.589 --> 00:43:43.629
If we compare it
with antiepileptic drugs,
00:43:43.629 --> 00:43:47.230
cannabis is a much
safer substance.
00:43:47.329 --> 00:43:49.471
With more controlled side effects,
00:43:49.570 --> 00:43:51.514
of less intensity.
00:43:51.514 --> 00:43:53.929
It varies depending on the drug
00:43:53.929 --> 00:43:55.961
with which you compare it.
00:43:56.902 --> 00:44:00.739
Let's see... we gave our
children anticonvulsants,
00:44:00.739 --> 00:44:03.832
or psychiatric medication
for the autistic child.
00:44:03.931 --> 00:44:05.893
Risperidone, sound familiar?
00:44:05.893 --> 00:44:09.050
Rivotril, Clone;
we gave them everything.
00:44:09.149 --> 00:44:11.824
When you give it to them,
to get it out,
00:44:11.824 --> 00:44:14.069
you must do it slowly
because if not,
00:44:14.069 --> 00:44:16.981
it can have a strong
adverse effect.
00:44:17.080 --> 00:44:19.136
That doesn't happen with cannabis:
00:44:19.136 --> 00:44:21.772
you can give and take it out
and nothing happens.
00:44:21.772 --> 00:44:23.906
So that allowed us to play,
00:44:23.907 --> 00:44:26.725
as neurologists do: they play.
00:44:26.824 --> 00:44:28.304
Give him a little more,
00:44:28.304 --> 00:44:30.343
oh, well, give him a little less
00:44:34.452 --> 00:44:37.800
If a child has
refractory epilepsy,
00:44:37.800 --> 00:44:40.625
he didn´t respond to any
traditional medication,
00:44:40.625 --> 00:44:44.400
he tries medicinal cannabis
and it does him good,
00:44:44.499 --> 00:44:48.202
it reduces the seizures
from 200 per day to 5,
00:44:48.301 --> 00:44:50.225
there is no much to think about,
00:44:50.226 --> 00:44:52.786
it is worth facing the cost
00:44:52.786 --> 00:44:56.072
of giving medical cannabis
at the risk that...
00:44:56.072 --> 00:44:58.234
Will it lower the
cognitive properties?
00:44:58.234 --> 00:45:00.317
Maybe, but anyway that child
00:45:00.415 --> 00:45:03.435
cant´t go o school or
even watch a TV show.
00:45:03.435 --> 00:45:06.989
So, actually,
that boy's cognitive abilities
00:45:06.989 --> 00:45:10.323
are increased by not having
200 seizures a day.
00:45:10.644 --> 00:45:12.566
It shouldn´t be described as a
00:45:12.566 --> 00:45:15.422
innocuous substance
because it is not.
00:45:15.521 --> 00:45:18.626
But it doesn´t mean
that it is bad.
00:45:18.626 --> 00:45:22.147
We have been led to
believe this historically
00:45:22.147 --> 00:45:24.102
because of how our society is,
00:45:24.102 --> 00:45:28.071
how the governments
that have ruled us are.
00:45:28.071 --> 00:45:31.490
There is no friendly
view for cannabis.
00:45:32.489 --> 00:45:35.628
This has been stigmatized
so much, right?
00:45:35.727 --> 00:45:38.522
That cannabis, that marijuana...
00:45:38.522 --> 00:45:43.509
Marijuana is one of the 300.000
plants that exist.
00:45:43.510 --> 00:45:45.805
It is a plant.
00:45:59.172 --> 00:46:01.801
If one is looking for certainties
00:46:01.801 --> 00:46:03.999
in efficacy and safety,
00:46:03.999 --> 00:46:05.951
that science asks of us
00:46:05.951 --> 00:46:08.454
through population-based
clinical trials,
00:46:08.454 --> 00:46:11.287
that´d be the great
weakness that cannabis has
00:46:11.287 --> 00:46:15.128
because the trials are with few
patients and for a short time.
00:46:15.227 --> 00:46:18.754
We are still looking
for the certainties.
00:46:18.754 --> 00:46:20.759
Now, what is certain is that
00:46:20.759 --> 00:46:22.962
the symptomatic diseases,
00:46:22.962 --> 00:46:24.919
such as pain and cancer,
00:46:24.919 --> 00:46:26.828
pain and multiple sclerosis,
00:46:26.828 --> 00:46:28.700
malnutrition and AIDS,
00:46:28.798 --> 00:46:30.811
adverse effect of chemotherapy,
00:46:30.811 --> 00:46:33.625
Parkinson's, inflammatory
bowel diseases...
00:46:33.625 --> 00:46:35.655
patients lose life quality.
00:46:35.655 --> 00:46:37.996
This substance would contribute
00:46:37.997 --> 00:46:40.700
in terms of humor,
00:46:40.700 --> 00:46:43.139
pain, sleep and appetite.
00:46:43.238 --> 00:46:47.364
Without being certain,
it is a symptomatic treatment...
00:46:47.463 --> 00:46:50.534
Palliative care doctor has
the best view of this
00:46:50.534 --> 00:46:52.853
because we don´t ask for certainty
to the substance,
00:46:52.853 --> 00:46:55.256
but the patient´s improvement
day to day.
00:46:55.467 --> 00:46:57.481
There is clinical evidence of
00:46:57.580 --> 00:46:59.595
varying degrees for situations
00:46:59.595 --> 00:47:02.671
of pain, spasticity,
multiple sclerosis,
00:47:02.671 --> 00:47:04.780
well-being and quality of life,
00:47:04.780 --> 00:47:06.914
refractory epilepsy,
00:47:06.914 --> 00:47:09.970
some neurological disorders,
such as West syndrome.
00:47:10.395 --> 00:47:13.273
In disruptive behavioral disorders,
00:47:13.372 --> 00:47:15.295
which are the result of
00:47:15.295 --> 00:47:17.651
the child's personality disorder,
00:47:17.651 --> 00:47:20.413
or in autism spectrum disorders
00:47:20.512 --> 00:47:22.379
-all that is ASD-
00:47:22.379 --> 00:47:24.725
associated with insomnia,
00:47:24.725 --> 00:47:27.037
with disruptive behaviors,
00:47:27.952 --> 00:47:31.346
destroying a family nucleus.
00:47:31.635 --> 00:47:34.137
The report of the parents
who have used,
00:47:34.137 --> 00:47:37.748
reports of patients
from other countries...
00:47:37.748 --> 00:47:40.090
there is significant improvement
00:47:40.189 --> 00:47:42.711
not only in the behavioral issue,
00:47:42.810 --> 00:47:44.780
in irritability, which are managed
00:47:44.780 --> 00:47:47.318
by traditional medicine´s drugs,
00:47:47.318 --> 00:47:50.107
but in vital and
important things:
00:47:50.107 --> 00:47:52.386
children begin to focus more,
00:47:52.386 --> 00:47:54.300
they have eye contact,
00:47:54.300 --> 00:47:56.405
some have begun to speak...
00:47:57.085 --> 00:47:59.229
I have just seen a mother,
00:47:59.229 --> 00:48:01.866
not only in her case
but other cases,
00:48:01.866 --> 00:48:04.474
kids who wet themselves,
stop wetting;
00:48:04.474 --> 00:48:07.044
children who did not
eat certain things
00:48:07.044 --> 00:48:09.277
begin to eat everything
and want to try other things;
00:48:09.277 --> 00:48:11.498
Children who did not tolerate
00:48:11.597 --> 00:48:13.684
the friction of certain clothes
00:48:13.783 --> 00:48:16.628
or who wore a fixed pair of shoes...
00:48:16.628 --> 00:48:19.415
they begin to expand their world
00:48:19.415 --> 00:48:21.559
and accept other things.
00:48:21.559 --> 00:48:23.206
So, really, it's... you say
00:48:23.207 --> 00:48:25.358
this thing is like magic
00:48:25.358 --> 00:48:28.042
because there is no other drug
discovered that does that.
00:48:28.212 --> 00:48:30.217
The mother tells me:
00:48:30.217 --> 00:48:32.432
You didn't improve my daughter
00:48:34.110 --> 00:48:36.499
I kept looking...
00:48:36.499 --> 00:48:38.926
As anyone would stare.
00:48:39.036 --> 00:48:41.783
So, I say: Look, the truth is
00:48:41.882 --> 00:48:43.905
that we found an association
00:48:43.905 --> 00:48:46.079
that could work and...
00:48:46.079 --> 00:48:49.696
The explanation that any
doctor would give, right?
00:48:49.795 --> 00:48:52.102
And she says: No, doctor.
00:48:52.103 --> 00:48:54.187
This improved my daughter.
00:48:54.187 --> 00:48:56.273
She put on my desk
00:48:56.372 --> 00:48:58.441
a dropper bottle.
00:48:58.441 --> 00:49:01.730
-What is that?
-Marijuana oil
00:49:01.730 --> 00:49:03.866
What? I stared at it like that
00:49:03.866 --> 00:49:06.984
and she said:
Yes, marijuana oil, doctor.
00:49:07.083 --> 00:49:10.389
Now, my question is:
will you kick me out
00:49:10.488 --> 00:49:12.482
or will you accompany me?
00:49:12.482 --> 00:49:14.539
Look, I never kicked anyone out,
00:49:14.539 --> 00:49:18.472
so I will accompany you.
00:49:18.473 --> 00:49:22.006
But I warn you that I don't
know anything about this.
00:49:30.546 --> 00:49:33.921
I rescued from cannabis
medicine in Canada,
00:49:33.921 --> 00:49:36.029
which is personalized medicine,
00:49:36.029 --> 00:49:38.211
directed to the patient's symptoms.
00:49:38.211 --> 00:49:41.346
That, at times, is forgotten
in our medical practice,
00:49:41.444 --> 00:49:43.856
many times we not only
standardize substances,
00:49:43.857 --> 00:49:46.274
but we standardize patients,
we give 0.5
00:49:46.274 --> 00:49:48.458
to all our patients to rest,
00:49:48.458 --> 00:49:51.057
as if this were a virtue
of the drug,
00:49:51.057 --> 00:49:53.159
that perhaps it is our fault of
00:49:53.159 --> 00:49:55.694
not listening enough
to our patients.
00:49:55.936 --> 00:49:58.086
Cannabis therapy
00:49:58.485 --> 00:50:01.987
is not solved in 7 minutes
in the office,
00:50:02.086 --> 00:50:03.751
nor in 10 or 15.
00:50:03.751 --> 00:50:08.677
It's not take this
every 8 hours, 6 drops.
00:50:08.776 --> 00:50:10.491
It's not like that.
00:50:11.010 --> 00:50:13.310
The dose is the working dose.
00:50:13.310 --> 00:50:15.326
This must be sought.
00:50:15.326 --> 00:50:17.975
It is a trial and error test.
00:50:18.074 --> 00:50:20.308
In general,
it starts with very little,
00:50:20.308 --> 00:50:24.535
it works its way up every
week from drop to drop,
00:50:24.634 --> 00:50:26.800
always sublingual, if possible,
00:50:26.800 --> 00:50:28.802
if not, orally, and
00:50:28.802 --> 00:50:31.999
the therapeutic effect is sought.
00:50:31.999 --> 00:50:34.968
Sometimes we have the
effect with very few drops
00:50:35.067 --> 00:50:38.471
and it seems to us that
it is a very small amount,
00:50:38.471 --> 00:50:40.702
and yet: Look, doctor,
00:50:42.409 --> 00:50:45.834
my son improved enormously.
00:50:45.834 --> 00:50:48.083
There you have to be careful,
00:50:48.083 --> 00:50:51.683
stop there and see how it evolves.
00:50:52.909 --> 00:50:55.076
We have met children with the exact
00:50:55.076 --> 00:50:59.495
same diagnosis and they
take different strains.
00:50:59.495 --> 00:51:01.668
It´s so complex that it´s not
00:51:01.668 --> 00:51:03.699
convenient for the doctor to treat
00:51:03.700 --> 00:51:06.063
the patient with cannabis,
00:51:06.063 --> 00:51:09.563
because it takes too much time.
00:51:09.672 --> 00:51:11.753
The mothers who cultivated,
00:51:11.753 --> 00:51:14.904
who were empowered
by that knowledge,
00:51:14.904 --> 00:51:16.956
are the ones who went
00:51:16.956 --> 00:51:18.655
and will go to the front.
00:51:18.799 --> 00:51:20.872
Here in Argentina, with an oil
00:51:20.872 --> 00:51:23.190
which composition is unknown,
00:51:23.289 --> 00:51:25.045
it is much more handmade.
00:51:25.045 --> 00:51:27.175
That is where self-cultivation
00:51:27.274 --> 00:51:32.297
comes in as the best
source of access,
00:51:32.298 --> 00:51:34.459
the most democratic,
00:51:34.459 --> 00:51:36.487
the cheapest, the safest.
00:52:10.874 --> 00:52:13.049
A plan b of self-cultivation
00:52:13.049 --> 00:52:15.105
would be for the patient to
00:52:15.105 --> 00:52:17.122
cultivate that plant and the
00:52:17.122 --> 00:52:19.166
University of Medicine analize
00:52:19.166 --> 00:52:21.227
the chemotypes´proportions.
00:52:21.325 --> 00:52:23.288
An option to a law that doesn´t
00:52:23.288 --> 00:52:25.036
contemplate self-cultivation.
00:52:36.768 --> 00:52:39.074
One day a mother asked me:
00:52:39.074 --> 00:52:43.120
If they bring you an oil
from California, telling you
00:52:43.120 --> 00:52:45.954
what it has, will you
give it to your son?
00:52:45.954 --> 00:52:48.171
I prefer mine.
00:52:48.171 --> 00:52:50.472
What do you want me to say?
00:52:50.571 --> 00:52:53.084
I prefer mine. I know what it has,
00:52:53.085 --> 00:52:56.394
what it is made of.
I prefer mine.
00:53:17.996 --> 00:53:20.686
Self-cultivation, self-cultivation!
00:53:40.101 --> 00:53:43.188
I am not a criminal,
00:53:44.217 --> 00:53:47.571
I grow marijuana,
00:53:48.414 --> 00:53:51.252
no more prisoners for planting!
00:53:51.548 --> 00:53:55.213
We are fans of the plant.
00:53:55.545 --> 00:53:57.817
We are not fans of oil;
00:53:57.817 --> 00:54:00.141
We are fans of the plant,
00:54:00.141 --> 00:54:02.970
something very important
is happening here.
00:54:02.970 --> 00:54:05.650
We are changing a paradigm,
00:54:05.748 --> 00:54:09.384
something that was illegal and
was prohibited, today...
00:54:09.384 --> 00:54:13.998
medical cannabis is
legal in Argentina.
00:54:15.122 --> 00:54:17.257
Come on!
00:54:21.467 --> 00:54:25.234
It is a long way to go,
this's just one step.
00:54:25.234 --> 00:54:28.297
We won´t stop until
self-cultivation!
00:54:28.380 --> 00:54:30.995
It is the only way out
00:54:32.198 --> 00:54:35.392
to remain free.
00:54:36.572 --> 00:54:38.721
Thank you. Thank you.
00:54:38.722 --> 00:54:41.264
It returns in oil for the people,
00:54:41.363 --> 00:54:44.614
for the hospitals,
for the children.
00:54:44.614 --> 00:54:47.080
Medicine is the right
00:54:47.080 --> 00:54:49.711
that we all have.
00:54:49.810 --> 00:54:51.794
Freedom for the plant,
00:54:51.794 --> 00:54:55.287
for the detainees and for health.
It cannot wait.
00:54:55.832 --> 00:54:59.567
How did the situation
change at this time?
00:54:59.786 --> 00:55:01.867
People are more informed,
00:55:01.867 --> 00:55:04.455
we have more acceptance
of public opinion,
00:55:04.455 --> 00:55:07.429
doctors are beginning
to open their minds,
00:55:07.429 --> 00:55:09.678
there´ll be an observational study
00:55:09.678 --> 00:55:12.869
at Garraham Hospital
with 100 patients,
00:55:12.869 --> 00:55:15.445
so all is reason for celebration.
00:55:15.544 --> 00:55:17.991
The black part is...
00:55:18.090 --> 00:55:22.506
the complete law
wasn´t regulated,
00:55:22.506 --> 00:55:25.015
that we are still criminalized,
00:55:25.015 --> 00:55:27.787
there is a notorious persecution
00:55:27.787 --> 00:55:30.562
of growers and...
00:55:30.562 --> 00:55:33.764
a right is being violated:
00:55:33.863 --> 00:55:35.937
the right to Health.
00:55:35.937 --> 00:55:38.286
There is a short circuit between
00:55:38.286 --> 00:55:41.743
what is voted as law in Congress
and the Executive.
00:55:41.743 --> 00:55:43.978
If we continue voting laws
00:55:43.978 --> 00:55:46.200
that represent the people and then
00:55:46.200 --> 00:55:48.361
they are not carried out,
00:55:48.460 --> 00:55:50.591
Congress should be closed.
00:55:50.690 --> 00:55:53.480
-Ok. Thanks a lot!
-Thank you!
00:56:32.386 --> 00:56:34.557
Well, to make the oil,
00:56:34.557 --> 00:56:36.957
when we present all the stuff,
00:56:37.033 --> 00:56:39.237
is to sterilize all the objects:
00:56:39.237 --> 00:56:41.325
the counter, the place...
00:56:42.883 --> 00:56:45.079
I write down every step I do
00:56:45.079 --> 00:56:47.162
every time I make oil,
00:56:47.261 --> 00:56:49.999
because the results
are always different.
00:56:50.557 --> 00:56:52.722
Also I'm a bit jealous of
00:56:52.723 --> 00:56:55.313
the measurements, right?
00:56:55.313 --> 00:56:58.379
I weigh the number of flowers...
00:57:35.135 --> 00:57:38.298
If I had a precision laboratory,
00:57:38.397 --> 00:57:41.963
it would always come out
the same, but I haven´t.
00:57:41.963 --> 00:57:46.496
Strains also give
different production.
00:57:58.810 --> 00:58:01.542
It must be done with
an electric element
00:58:01.542 --> 00:58:04.579
not gas or fire
00:58:04.579 --> 00:58:07.505
because as alcohol evaporates...
00:58:08.299 --> 00:58:10.379
in fact, you have to ventilate.
00:58:10.379 --> 00:58:12.905
It can cause an accident, so
00:58:12.905 --> 00:58:15.152
be careful because
alcohol is evaporating,
00:58:15.251 --> 00:58:16.931
although one doesn´t realize...
00:58:23.770 --> 00:58:26.507
From 50 g of flowers
00:58:26.507 --> 00:58:29.979
2 or 5 ml of resin can come out.
00:58:31.713 --> 00:58:34.251
2 of this one and 2 of this other
00:58:38.924 --> 00:58:41.472
-Which one first? Anyone?
-Either one
00:59:02.034 --> 00:59:04.010
Now... these.
00:59:27.498 --> 00:59:28.998
And that´s it.
00:59:35.350 --> 00:59:38.636
Joaquin's Tourette
started very strong.
00:59:39.067 --> 00:59:41.174
He drool...
00:59:41.174 --> 00:59:44.577
Socially, for example,
he didn´t play
00:59:44.676 --> 00:59:48.276
with his classmates
in the kindergarten
00:59:48.276 --> 00:59:50.661
he stayed alone...
00:59:50.661 --> 00:59:53.832
It started with involuntary
00:59:53.832 --> 00:59:57.620
movements in his hands,
00:59:57.718 --> 00:59:59.834
he couldn't hold the cup anymore
00:59:59.835 --> 01:00:02.017
because he thought his classmates
01:00:02.941 --> 01:00:05.291
were going to laugh at him,
01:00:05.309 --> 01:00:08.762
that's how it started
until my mom found out
01:00:08.762 --> 01:00:11.910
about medical cannabis
01:00:12.009 --> 01:00:15.255
and we began with it.
01:00:24.750 --> 01:00:27.841
When Maca told me that Joaquin
01:00:27.841 --> 01:00:29.868
had been given that diagnosis,
01:00:29.868 --> 01:00:32.002
Tourette Syndrome,
01:00:32.101 --> 01:00:34.737
I cried a lot and at night
01:00:34.737 --> 01:00:37.102
I started looking on the Internet
01:00:37.102 --> 01:00:39.168
what Tourette Syndrome was.
01:00:39.168 --> 01:00:41.391
It was worse because the videos
01:00:41.490 --> 01:00:45.092
you find are all about
critical patients, right?
01:00:45.879 --> 01:00:48.650
I turned on the TV for a while and
01:00:48.650 --> 01:00:50.816
I saw a mother from Mama Cultiva
01:00:50.915 --> 01:00:53.050
who used oil for her
epileptic child.
01:00:54.243 --> 01:00:56.515
It was like magic because I said
01:00:56.614 --> 01:00:58.523
if that mother uses it...
01:00:58.523 --> 01:01:00.673
I´d already seen that the Tourette
01:01:00.673 --> 01:01:02.688
has involuntary movements like
01:01:02.688 --> 01:01:06.255
electrical issues in the brain.
01:01:06.255 --> 01:01:08.589
I am a Literature teacher,
01:01:08.688 --> 01:01:10.914
I have nothing to do with this.
01:01:11.013 --> 01:01:14.130
But it was just as intuitive, right?
01:01:14.130 --> 01:01:16.340
If they are involuntary movements
01:01:16.340 --> 01:01:18.536
and it has to do with electrical
01:01:18.536 --> 01:01:21.356
circuits in the brain,
maybe that too...
01:01:21.665 --> 01:01:23.957
I started searching and googled
01:01:23.957 --> 01:01:26.005
cannabis and Tourette.
01:01:26.103 --> 01:01:28.403
Later I changed
Tourette and cannabis
01:01:28.403 --> 01:01:30.411
because when I put cannabis,
01:01:30.411 --> 01:01:32.581
seed sale pages appeared...
01:01:32.581 --> 01:01:35.046
well everything, blogs
01:01:38.260 --> 01:01:40.628
Meanwhile, the thing advanced,
01:01:40.727 --> 01:01:43.140
Joaquin took a medication
01:01:43.239 --> 01:01:45.245
that was terrible...
01:01:45.245 --> 01:01:47.320
the mother stopped giving it to him
01:01:47.321 --> 01:01:49.815
because the adverse
effects were terrible,
01:01:49.815 --> 01:01:51.514
it was Risperidone.
01:01:53.491 --> 01:01:56.610
Joaquin had many tics,
that were combined,
01:01:56.709 --> 01:01:59.488
later he couldn´t eat,
01:01:59.587 --> 01:02:01.604
he had a movement with his hands
01:02:01.604 --> 01:02:03.866
that went inwards...
01:02:03.866 --> 01:02:06.166
he turned his head like that
01:02:06.166 --> 01:02:09.955
and he had hurt himself here,
he´d burned from friction.
01:02:11.071 --> 01:02:13.486
I found at the
University of Düsseldorf,
01:02:13.487 --> 01:02:15.514
in Germany, a double-blind study
01:02:15.514 --> 01:02:19.164
that they had done with
a very small sample
01:02:19.263 --> 01:02:21.315
of about 60 patients,
01:02:21.315 --> 01:02:24.389
and I said well, this is it.
It has worked with THC
01:02:24.488 --> 01:02:26.489
delta9 tetrahydrocannabidiol.
01:02:41.297 --> 01:02:45.125
November 4, 2016, he took
cannabis for the first time.
01:02:45.125 --> 01:02:47.700
We were Macarena, my mom and me.
01:02:47.700 --> 01:02:50.879
Three women looking,
we gave him 2 drops
01:02:50.879 --> 01:02:53.776
and I don't know what we thought,
01:02:53.874 --> 01:02:56.053
that Joaquin would started
01:02:56.053 --> 01:02:58.093
to see red flying elephants...
01:02:58.093 --> 01:03:00.129
we were there attentive
01:03:01.466 --> 01:03:04.886
after taking the drops,
he went to take a nap...
01:03:04.886 --> 01:03:06.631
He slept for 2 hours and a half...
01:03:07.550 --> 01:03:10.218
When he got up he said:
I'm hungry
01:03:11.093 --> 01:03:14.521
So that was Joaquín's reaction
and that's where we started.
01:03:56.079 --> 01:03:58.111
Joaquin began to improve, that is,
01:03:58.111 --> 01:04:01.955
socially well, he no longer drool.
01:04:02.949 --> 01:04:06.133
Well... well. He improved a lot.
01:04:06.954 --> 01:04:09.878
It's what I always say:
medical cannabis
01:04:09.878 --> 01:04:12.665
doesn't work miracles, it helps.
01:04:14.463 --> 01:04:17.494
It does have its ups and downs.
01:04:17.789 --> 01:04:20.990
Yesterday, for example,
he had a bad rise...
01:04:21.507 --> 01:04:23.661
he was bad.
01:04:23.719 --> 01:04:26.570
But not today; today was better.
01:04:51.334 --> 01:04:54.126
I cultivated and began to...
01:04:55.957 --> 01:04:57.686
to continue, right?
01:04:57.686 --> 01:04:59.854
The laboratory at home was...
01:04:59.854 --> 01:05:03.084
I had a scale, I had a shaker and
01:05:03.084 --> 01:05:05.199
I had a friend who told me:
01:05:05.298 --> 01:05:08.296
You add more and
more years in prison
01:05:09.763 --> 01:05:12.029
I was scared there because I...
01:05:12.029 --> 01:05:14.478
I didn't want to be imprisoned
01:05:14.577 --> 01:05:17.366
because if I went imprisoned,
01:05:17.366 --> 01:05:19.621
everything would collapse.
01:05:19.621 --> 01:05:22.423
I had taken this into my hands,
01:05:22.423 --> 01:05:24.601
Macarena was taking care of Joaquín
01:05:24.601 --> 01:05:26.834
When they ask me why you
and not the mother
01:05:26.834 --> 01:05:30.280
Well, the mother was taking care
of that boy who was a volcano,
01:05:30.379 --> 01:05:33.409
and there was a grandmother
who wanted to help.
01:05:33.409 --> 01:05:36.118
Sometimes that doesn't happen.
It this case, it does.
01:05:36.217 --> 01:05:38.049
Grandma was the one who came out.
01:05:41.288 --> 01:05:44.052
We started with the
writ of protection
01:05:44.052 --> 01:05:46.014
beginning a movement that was
01:05:46.015 --> 01:05:48.096
I sign for Joaquin and
01:05:48.115 --> 01:05:50.714
we collected 6,200 signatures.
01:05:51.212 --> 01:05:53.891
If the protection hadn´t come out,
01:05:53.891 --> 01:05:56.276
I´d have continued doing the same.
01:05:57.679 --> 01:06:00.341
I wouldn't have stopped because
01:06:05.723 --> 01:06:08.370
I felt that Joaco was...
01:06:09.465 --> 01:06:11.658
trapped in a body,
01:06:12.217 --> 01:06:14.332
he had lost his freedom,
01:06:14.333 --> 01:06:16.449
like he didn't decide what to do.
01:06:17.268 --> 01:06:20.725
I thought: it is Joaquín's
freedom or mine
01:06:21.269 --> 01:06:23.317
Definetely Joaquin's freedom.
01:06:25.783 --> 01:06:27.945
Through this precautionary measure
01:06:28.089 --> 01:06:30.149
that they gave us,
01:06:30.149 --> 01:06:32.997
we are, let's say, legally
01:06:33.096 --> 01:06:35.921
authorized to have our plants.
01:06:35.921 --> 01:06:39.335
We have the requested
amount of plants
01:06:39.335 --> 01:06:41.408
to guarantee Joaquin´s medicine
01:06:41.408 --> 01:06:43.724
throughout the year.
01:06:44.180 --> 01:06:47.666
The Ministry of Health
appealed the protection
01:06:47.666 --> 01:06:50.752
claiming that the law
has already been discussed
01:06:50.851 --> 01:06:55.595
and it only protects
refractory epilepsy.
01:06:56.234 --> 01:07:00.068
If the judge gives rise
to the appeal
01:07:00.167 --> 01:07:03.536
we will have no doubt
in reaching the Court.
01:07:04.197 --> 01:07:07.814
If the Court tells us no, well...
01:07:07.815 --> 01:07:09.958
I will continue to do so.
01:07:09.958 --> 01:07:12.096
Don't shoot the messenger!
01:08:34.987 --> 01:08:36.922
Let's go?
01:08:43.117 --> 01:08:46.705
Come here.
01:08:49.765 --> 01:08:51.765
The little brother is playing.
01:08:54.298 --> 01:08:56.105
Let's see.
01:08:57.810 --> 01:08:59.835
Come here.
01:09:12.635 --> 01:09:14.928
Can you pass me a napkin, Fer?
01:09:20.389 --> 01:09:21.920
Thank you.
01:09:24.503 --> 01:09:26.067
Did this stop working?
01:09:26.067 --> 01:09:28.453
No, I turned it off.
01:09:33.801 --> 01:09:36.250
Since the law came out until now,
01:09:36.250 --> 01:09:38.816
all is more complicated for
01:09:38.915 --> 01:09:41.621
ordinary people like us,
for parents.
01:09:41.621 --> 01:09:43.829
It is complicated to carry out
01:09:43.829 --> 01:09:45.900
the procedure to import,
01:09:45.999 --> 01:09:48.491
the only thing that
is allowed to import
01:09:48.492 --> 01:09:51.066
is one variety of oil
for refractory epilepsy,
01:09:51.066 --> 01:09:53.594
and only oil, not other way.
01:09:53.594 --> 01:09:56.404
It can´t be imported to vaporize,
01:09:56.503 --> 01:09:58.558
creams cannot be imported.
01:09:58.558 --> 01:10:00.803
It limited everything a lot.
01:10:00.902 --> 01:10:03.451
Us, parents, say:
01:10:03.451 --> 01:10:05.817
the law was good;
01:10:05.817 --> 01:10:09.373
what was very bad,
really bad, is the regulation.
01:10:09.504 --> 01:10:12.014
There is no free oil for anyone
01:10:12.113 --> 01:10:15.566
because the State doesn´t
provide oil for the people.
01:10:17.443 --> 01:10:19.778
Everything is very, very complex.
01:10:19.778 --> 01:10:22.346
They don´t understand
that on the other side
01:10:22.346 --> 01:10:24.552
there is a convulsive baby,
01:10:24.552 --> 01:10:26.661
a mother suffering because
01:10:26.661 --> 01:10:28.809
we are families that fight for
01:10:28.908 --> 01:10:32.170
a quality of life for the children,
their relatives.
01:10:32.269 --> 01:10:34.176
I say about my daughter because,
01:10:34.176 --> 01:10:36.383
well, Josefina has epilepsy,
01:10:36.383 --> 01:10:38.591
but there are cases of autism.
01:10:38.591 --> 01:10:40.688
I don't know if a doctor ever
01:10:40.689 --> 01:10:43.360
came into the life of that family.
01:10:43.459 --> 01:10:45.661
Authorities must understand
01:10:45.661 --> 01:10:47.806
because we won´t stop.
01:10:47.905 --> 01:10:50.804
They must accompany us,
to support us,
01:10:50.804 --> 01:10:54.119
it must be safe, it must be
obtained in a dispensary.
01:10:54.119 --> 01:10:56.204
To be able to grow,
01:10:56.204 --> 01:10:58.757
because maybe the
variety that you get
01:10:58.856 --> 01:11:01.730
in a pharmacy is not
what your child needs.
01:11:04.816 --> 01:11:06.816
You're making a mess.
01:11:11.516 --> 01:11:13.954
Shall we take her downstairs, Lau,
before pizza?
01:11:14.121 --> 01:11:16.831
If not, pizza will be
like stone later.
01:11:18.745 --> 01:11:21.168
Do you want to go for a walk?
Look!
01:11:22.690 --> 01:11:24.738
She goes to her room!
01:11:43.754 --> 01:11:45.883
Look, we're going outside,
01:11:45.883 --> 01:11:48.383
but first the jacket.
01:11:50.884 --> 01:11:52.777
You are terrible!
01:11:56.062 --> 01:11:57.938
Give me your arm here...
01:12:10.907 --> 01:12:12.302
Careful!
01:12:17.768 --> 01:12:20.495
You are a pumpkin, huh.
01:12:33.514 --> 01:12:35.415
Look, there is the cat.
01:12:35.415 --> 01:12:37.384
Stop there is mud there, Jose.
01:12:37.384 --> 01:12:39.218
There, for the other side.
01:12:39.218 --> 01:12:40.768
Come on, Jose
01:12:41.102 --> 01:12:43.707
No, there are aromatic plants...
01:12:47.622 --> 01:12:50.269
Very good, Jose, what a genius.
01:12:50.889 --> 01:12:52.714
How she is walking!
01:12:57.098 --> 01:12:59.945
There is water,
you're going to fall...
01:13:04.945 --> 01:13:06.951
Alone, alone.
01:13:16.129 --> 01:13:19.084
Look who's coming there.
Dad
where is dad?
01:13:20.770 --> 01:13:22.707
Will you take my hand?
01:13:35.252 --> 01:13:40.708
Dad
dad
where is dad?
01:13:41.918 --> 01:13:44.090
Those crazy hairs.
01:13:45.050 --> 01:13:48.320
She wants to continue,
but then she has to come back.
01:14:00.024 --> 01:14:01.822
Look how she goes...
01:14:09.175 --> 01:14:12.331
Do you want to go down?
She looks at the floor.
01:14:13.989 --> 01:14:16.284
Shall we walk the last stretch?
01:14:16.285 --> 01:14:20.296
Take Mom´s hand on one side
and me on the other.
01:14:20.703 --> 01:14:25.227
Give me your hand.
Come on, pumpkin. Well!
01:14:33.909 --> 01:14:36.937
You're going downhill, Jose,
you're going to roll.
01:14:41.549 --> 01:14:45.037
Shall we go, pumpkin?
Shall we?
01:14:46.704 --> 01:14:50.377
You walked a lot! Bravo!
01:15:05.437 --> 01:15:07.862
We import, we continue to import,
01:15:07.862 --> 01:15:10.199
the same oil that we imported when
01:15:10.199 --> 01:15:12.260
we started the treatment.
01:15:12.359 --> 01:15:15.649
We are giving it to Josefina
in 2 daily doses.
01:15:15.649 --> 01:15:19.332
We have had ups and
downs in between,
01:15:19.332 --> 01:15:21.631
so we also started to contact other
01:15:21.631 --> 01:15:23.762
mothers to see how they did.
01:15:23.861 --> 01:15:26.182
We tried to give her homemade oils,
01:15:26.182 --> 01:15:28.473
produced in another way,
01:15:28.572 --> 01:15:30.957
trying to get the THCa,
01:15:30.957 --> 01:15:33.121
which was produced by a mother.
01:15:33.121 --> 01:15:35.848
There is a mother who is
01:15:35.849 --> 01:15:38.539
growing a variety of cannabis,
01:15:38.638 --> 01:15:40.719
for her son, and she tells me:
01:15:40.719 --> 01:15:43.088
Laura, look, I did a lot
01:15:43.088 --> 01:15:45.322
because the truth was she risked
01:15:45.322 --> 01:15:47.785
by having many plants to be able
01:15:47.884 --> 01:15:49.838
to harvest and have a support in
01:15:49.838 --> 01:15:53.379
her son´s treatment, who has
cerebral palsy, West Syndrome,
01:15:55.479 --> 01:15:57.153
I said yes.
01:15:57.835 --> 01:16:00.176
Do you want me to
send you a bottle?
01:16:00.176 --> 01:16:02.476
Yes, we will try it with Jose
01:16:04.049 --> 01:16:07.930
If that works I´ll start growing.
01:16:08.029 --> 01:16:10.011
There is always the idea of
01:16:10.011 --> 01:16:12.044
making a protection appeal,
01:16:12.044 --> 01:16:14.274
as we got the first one that
01:16:14.274 --> 01:16:17.018
required our social security to
cover the cannabis oil
01:16:17.018 --> 01:16:19.064
even before the law,
before everything.
01:16:19.064 --> 01:16:22.012
Jose had the public social security
01:16:22.110 --> 01:16:24.861
covering her treatment
with cannabis.
01:16:35.716 --> 01:16:38.730
Look, this is the oil that
01:16:38.829 --> 01:16:41.451
I told you yesterday,
01:16:41.451 --> 01:16:44.482
from Silvia, the mother who
prepared it for Josefina.
01:16:44.482 --> 01:16:46.718
So, let's see what it is like.
01:16:46.850 --> 01:16:49.600
With a lot of hope, obviously.
01:16:50.637 --> 01:16:53.234
It's kind of difficult, but ok.
01:16:54.070 --> 01:16:56.569
She prepared it for her little boy,
01:16:56.649 --> 01:16:58.792
he is already taking it,
01:16:58.792 --> 01:17:02.212
and she offered me for Josefina.
01:17:02.212 --> 01:17:04.338
If it works,
01:17:04.338 --> 01:17:07.004
if it is good for her
01:17:07.103 --> 01:17:09.171
we are going to start growing
01:17:09.171 --> 01:17:11.932
this same strain ourselves.
01:17:17.382 --> 01:17:19.840
She sent it in the bottle of same
01:17:19.939 --> 01:17:22.450
oil that Jose takes, right?
01:17:22.451 --> 01:17:25.936
But, hey, homemade oil, so good.
01:17:26.456 --> 01:17:29.025
Hopefully it works on Jose.
01:17:29.025 --> 01:17:31.421
In Bastian it is already working,
01:17:31.520 --> 01:17:34.253
so, well, let's see.
I have faith...
01:17:35.370 --> 01:17:37.770
So transparent...
01:17:40.953 --> 01:17:44.463
smells good, smells good.
01:17:45.255 --> 01:17:47.332
Well, let´s try it on Jose...
01:17:48.525 --> 01:17:50.888
Chilean mothers told me once
01:17:50.986 --> 01:17:53.354
that they cultivate 3 different
01:17:53.354 --> 01:17:55.381
varieties and rotate the strains.
01:17:55.381 --> 01:17:57.616
So, start testing with that too.
01:17:57.616 --> 01:18:00.042
Do not abandon this imported oil,
01:18:00.042 --> 01:18:02.297
which is the one we already have,
01:18:02.297 --> 01:18:04.366
covered by the social security
01:18:04.465 --> 01:18:06.644
to support Jose´s treatment
01:18:06.743 --> 01:18:08.849
and combine it with another
01:18:08.849 --> 01:18:12.636
to achieve an even more
stable improvement, right?
01:18:12.636 --> 01:18:15.084
So, well, let's see.
01:19:32.162 --> 01:19:34.281
How nice to be outside, right?
01:19:35.666 --> 01:19:38.370
How cute, Jose.
01:19:52.035 --> 01:19:54.201
Cute.
01:19:59.302 --> 01:20:01.646
That cheeky face.
01:20:02.115 --> 01:20:03.843
That cheeky face.
01:20:03.928 --> 01:20:06.178
1, 2, 3!
01:20:07.469 --> 01:20:09.969
Bravo, bravo!
01:20:12.902 --> 01:20:15.033
Let´s go, let´s go...
01:20:16.178 --> 01:20:18.341
Let´s change the diaper...
01:20:20.336 --> 01:20:23.635
I get sick because it is a plant
01:20:23.635 --> 01:20:26.178
that gives life to my daughter.
01:20:26.718 --> 01:20:29.446
Politicians can´t understand that.
01:20:29.446 --> 01:20:31.600
They don´t live what we live,
01:20:31.699 --> 01:20:33.701
with the illnesses of our children.
01:20:33.870 --> 01:20:36.028
So we need that.
01:20:36.028 --> 01:20:38.324
We are not asking for anything
from the other world.
01:20:38.324 --> 01:20:40.777
We are asking to grow the
plant here in the country,
01:20:40.777 --> 01:20:43.728
to investigate,
to manufacture the oil
01:20:43.728 --> 01:20:46.078
to have the varieties of cannabis...
01:20:47.227 --> 01:20:49.238
We ask nothing more than that:
01:20:49.238 --> 01:20:52.530
to accompany us with the
responsibility we gave them
01:20:52.530 --> 01:20:54.456
because we voted for politicians
01:20:54.456 --> 01:20:57.737
to accompany us,
to make public policies
01:20:57.738 --> 01:21:00.238
to support our children.
01:21:00.361 --> 01:21:03.512
We are their voice because
they cannot speak.
01:21:03.611 --> 01:21:06.000
My daughter cannot speak,
express herself,
01:21:06.000 --> 01:21:08.080
cannot say what she feels.
01:21:08.080 --> 01:21:10.100
She talks to me with her eyes.
01:21:10.100 --> 01:21:12.359
What she says since
she is taking cannabis
01:21:12.359 --> 01:21:14.599
what she tells me with her eyes
01:21:14.599 --> 01:21:18.196
is that she has peace
and that she is happy
01:21:18.295 --> 01:21:21.478
that she leads a day to
day with quality of life.
01:21:21.577 --> 01:21:24.277
That's a lot, and we
families make that possible.
01:21:40.372 --> 01:21:42.676
Are we going to the ramp?
01:21:42.925 --> 01:21:47.332
Let's go. Come on,
let's go to the ramp.
01:21:48.286 --> 01:21:50.687
Very well. Very well.
01:21:53.174 --> 01:21:55.611
Upstairs, Jose.
01:21:56.484 --> 01:21:58.176
Mara!
01:21:58.176 --> 01:22:00.540
There is!
01:22:02.463 --> 01:22:07.206
Very good, Jose. Bravo.
01:22:07.206 --> 01:22:09.697
Ready? Let's go up.
01:22:11.844 --> 01:22:14.457
Come on, Mara.
01:22:14.555 --> 01:22:17.680
There is. Come on, Mara.
01:22:17.893 --> 01:22:22.668
-Bye, Jose!
-Bye, daddy! Bye, mom!
01:23:20.616 --> 01:23:22.616
Mara is cute, huh.
01:23:54.235 --> 01:23:57.280
In November 2020,
a new regulation of Law 27,350
01:23:57.280 --> 01:23:59.280
for Medical and Scientific Research
01:23:59.280 --> 01:24:02.780
on the medicinal use of the
cannabis plant and its derivatives
01:24:02.780 --> 01:24:04.780
was decreed in the
Argentine Republic,
01:24:04.780 --> 01:24:07.780
repealing the previous one
that was restrictive
01:24:07.780 --> 01:24:10.567
and insufficient for
the needs of the population.
01:24:10.917 --> 01:24:12.917
The new regulation guarantees
01:24:12.917 --> 01:24:14.917
access to cannabis-based products
01:24:14.917 --> 01:24:16.917
made in the country or imported.
01:24:16.917 --> 01:24:18.917
In addition, it authorizes
01:24:18.917 --> 01:24:21.417
personal, solidarity and
collective cultivation.
01:24:21.937 --> 01:24:24.937
Health cannot wait.
Distributor: Pragda Films
Length: 83 minutes
Date: 2021
Genre: Expository
Language: Spanish
Grade: High School, College, Adult
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