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Chile has started harvesting its first medical marijuana crop Tuesday, while the drug remains prohibited for its recreational consumption.
The 400 plants were sown in October in a heavily guarded field of about 100 square meters in the residential district of La Florida, in the capital Santiago. The non-profit organization Daya Foundation was then granted a permit to extract cannabis oil in a pilot program aimed at treating 200 cancer patients for free.
"This is about the dignity of patients who are dying every day in pain and with very expensive medical bills," said Rodolfo Carter, the mayor of La Florida, at a ceremony marking the harvest.
The cannabis leaves will now be processed in a laboratory, as the final product is expected to be ready by January 2016.
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Chile has become the first country of the region (and of the world) to legally harvest cannabis plants, while in Uruguay — the only country of the world that has legalized...
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