Five people were arrested preventively and one in the act during a Civil Police operation in Aracaju and Salgado this Friday (26), against an association that received funds from the federal government to cultivate medicinal marijuana and is suspected of involvement in drug trafficking. . The information was obtained exclusively by g1.
In 2015, the National Health Surveillance Agency reclassified cannabidiol, which was removed from the list of prohibited substances to controlled ones. But the medicine can only be provided by associations authorized by Anvisa.
In Sergipe, an unprecedented court decision last year authorized an association to supply cannabis flower. In the country, only nine associations that defend the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes are authorized to supply cannabidiol in oil form to patients, with a medical report and prescription.
This report is being updated
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