Medicinal cannabis: what next for Brazil?

The medicinal use of Cannabis has been reported since 2,900 BC, originally in China, and was introduced into western medicine around 1840 (Grieco, M. Protection and Regulation of the Legal Use of Cannabis—Impact and Opportunities in relation to IP. In: XXXIX International Congress of Intellectual Property of the Brazilian Intellectual Property Association (ABPI). Rio de Janeiro, 2019).

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