Medical cannabis: Argentina and Brazil exchanged advances on the development of cultivation in Patagonia

The development of medical cannabis in Latin America has ceased to be a series of isolated efforts to become a collective construction of knowledge. During the Binational Meeting of Medical Cannabis and Industrial Hemp held in Roca, the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) and its Brazilian counterpart, Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa), decided to pool their research under a clear objective: the sovereign integration of scientific knowledge. The first medical cannabis laboratory in Patagonia enters its final stage with the help of INTA This scientific bridge is supported by years of work in the Patagonian valleys and laboratories, where INTA has managed to produce with a complex crop like cannabis. The presence of the Brazilian delegation in the region is not accidental, but a recognition of a productive model that already shows concrete results in the field. The meeting, which had five panels, featured prominent speakers from Argentina and ...