Chile plants cannabis for medicinal use

BBC News (UK)
Wednesday, 29 October, 2014

Chile-cannabis-medicinal_ceciliaIn most countries in the world, if you asked the local authorities for permission to grow 750 cannabis plants in a residential area of the capital city, you would probably end up in trouble. But in Chile, the state has just agreed to such a project. The cannabis will be planted on 29 October in La Florida, a district of Santiago. It will be harvested next April and turned into an oil which will be used as a painkiller for 200 cancer patients.