Inside a Clandestine Marijuana Workshop for Cancer Treatments in Mexico

The group met at a Waldo's convenience store in Mexico City early one Sunday morning, following the instructions given over encrypted messages weeks before. When they were picked up by a vehicle, as arranged, they had no idea where they were going next.

Eventually they arrived at house in the southern barrio of Xochimilco furnished with little more than white plastic chairs and a projector. In the kitchen they found a blender, a whisk, pots, gloves, towels, paper napkins, peroxide, and oils.

This was what they had come for — to learn how to make marijuana-based treatments for cancer and epilepsy.

'Marijuana is not the devil, but it doesn't do miracles either," said their teacher, a tall young man with a foreign accent who asked to be called Matías, which is not his real name. "That's why we must understand it also has risks. You have to get to know...

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