Former Chubut health minister and director of the Medical Career of the National University of Patagonia, Juan Manuel Corchuelo Blasco, announced that the state university will create a medical cannabis program for the medical career.
“Having such a program is very important for the development of our study house,” said Corchuelo.
This decision was made after the national government legalized homegrown cultivation and marijuana for purposes and its sale in pharmacies. This gives the opportunity for universities to be part of the development of the industry.
The idea of the project seems to intend to produce a social good for sick people.
“Our idea is to produce medical marijuana to give to the state: that there be a free delivery; people don’t pay for this,” he told a local mediaman. It also referred to its benefits. “An absolute adherent of medicinal cannabis for manyyears. Humanity has been using medicinal cannabis for centuries. It is proven to improve the health of people with different diseases.”