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Cannativa participates in debate on Cannabis at the Medical Association
The Ordem dos Médicos will discuss medical cannabis this Wednesday, April 18th, at 18 pm at its headquarters, and invited Cannativa — Associação de Estudos sobre Cannabis, to be present on the main panel. The discussion will focus on the risks and benefits of using cannabis for therapeutic purposes and […]
The Ordem dos Médicos will discuss medical cannabis this Wednesday, April 18th, at 18 pm at its headquarters, and invited Cannativa — Associação de Estudos sobre Cannabis, to be present on the main panel.
The discussion will focus on the risks and benefits of using cannabis for therapeutic purposes and will feature four speakers at the main table: Luís Castelo-Branco, from the Ordem dos Médicos (OM), Félix Carvalho, from the Ordem dos Farmacêuticos (OF ), Moisés Ferreira, from Bloco de Esquerda (BE) and Javier Pedraza Valiente, from Cannativa — Association of Studies on Cannabis.
The discussion will be open to the audience at the end of the debate, providing for the intervention and contributions of other specialists in the area such as Cristina Rodrigues, People-Animals-Nature (PAN), Marta Marcelino, from Infarmed, Ana Rita Andrade, Internal Medicine General Medicine and Family and Multiple Sclerosis patient, Ricardo Baptista Leite, from the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and António Vaz Carneiro, from the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine Studies.
The debate will be moderated by journalist Dulce Salzedas, from SIC.
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Featured Photo: DR / Jornal Médico
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[Disclaimer: Please note that this text was originally written in Portuguese and is translated into English and other languages using an automatic translator. Some words may differ from the original and typos or errors may occur in other languages.]____________________________________________________________________________________________________
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With a degree in Journalism from the University of Coimbra, Laura Ramos has a postgraduate degree in Photography and has been a Journalist since 1998. Winner of the Business of Cannabis Awards in the category "Journalist of the Year 2024", Laura was a correspondent for Jornal de Notícias in Rome, Italy, and Press Officer in the Office of the Minister of Education of the 2018st Portuguese Government. She has an international certification in Permaculture (PDC) and created the street-art photography archive “What does Lisbon say?” @saywhatlisbon. Co-founder and Editor of CannaReporter® and coordinator of PTMC - Portugal Medical Cannabis, Laura made the documentary “Pacientes” in XNUMX and was part of the steering group of the first Postgraduate Course in GxP's for Medicinal Cannabis in Portugal, in partnership with the Military Laboratory and the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Lisbon.
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