‘Mamá Cultiva’: The Struggle Of Argentinian Women Who Grew Cannabis For Their Sick Children
Six years after the legalization of marijuana for medicinal use, its defenders fear that a change of government will roll back their hard-won rights.
Valeria Salech heard her son laugh for the first time on the day she gave him cannabis oil. It was the result of endless bureaucracy. Valeria’s son Emiliano had not been able to obtain allopathic medication to treat refractory epilepsy, a disease that he suffered from since birth and that led him to suffer up to 200 seizures a day. “I heard him laugh, it was funny and emotional at the same time, but the first thing I thought was that I wanted to tell everyone what had happened,” she recalls. That day, Salech planted the seed of a network in Argentina of mothers dedicated to cultivating and producing marijuana to treat illnesses in their children for which conventional medicine provided an insufficient response or none at all.
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