Course planning to include cannabis in Uruguay

Montevideo |

Researchers at the University of the Republic (Udelar) of Uruguay are studying the medicinal properties of cannabis and preparing the inclusion of a specific discipline on the subject to be integrated into the curriculum of the medical course starting next year.

This team looks to see the benefits of the components of marijuana in treating pain, nausea and vomiting, epilepsy, Parkinson's, lack of appetite, anorexia caused by chemotherapy or in patients with HIV, and other diseases and symptoms in addition to finding possible hexes.

"The idea is to make the chemical analysis of the greatest possible number of plants and have a database where we can correlate genotype with the chemotype and the metabologic profile and thus make the selection for the different biological assays," the chemist Carlos Garcia told Efe.

The group, composed of researchers especially linked to the faculties of medicine and chemistry, are registered at the Institute...

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