Source: La Jornada
Ángel Bolaños Sánchez
La Jornada newspaper, Sunday, August 4, 2019, p. 28
The medical and therapeutic use of marijuana and its byproducts, the dignified death, as well as the preservation and recovery of traditional indigenous medicine are rights established in the local Constitution that will have to be integrated into the initiative of a new health law that will be presented to the Mexico City Congress during the next normal legislative session.
Lourdes Paz Reyes, president of the Health Commission and member of the leading political party Morena, explained that the bill is being formulated by all political forces, the city government and experts in these matters so that it can be presented in October as a single initiative.
She said that on August 13 a forum will be held on the right to a dignified death and different topics will be addressed in other meetings.
Meanwhile, a diagnosis is made together with the Health Secretariat about the legislation in the matter in order to unify and harmonize its contents with the new vision outlined by the Constitution, such as to give priority to the human rights of patients and to regionally decentralize the first level services to facilitate its access to the population and define mechanisms to provide follow up to hospital care.
She said that a first forum on alternative, complementary and traditional medicine had already been held and soon the new health model, the regulation of the medical and therapeutic use of cannabis, as well as the availability and consumption of alcohol and its impact in public health and safety will be addressed.
Under the health title, the human rights section of the Constitution states that “everyone will be allowed the medical and therapeutic use of cannabis“.
Source: La Jornada
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