Recently is cannabis used in medicine very rarely for treatment of patients unable to be cured by contemporary medication. It can be an extreme loss of weight in patients with AIDS or for reduction of chemotherapy's side effects.
Cannabis and the laws
Cannabis legislative
In the last few decades was the grow of cannabis for traditional manufacturing purposes put strongly down. Most states of Europe and North America states of map distance accepted a legislative precaution that was poited against grow of cannabis as a source of narcotics. But these restrictions stigmatized very strongly the traditional production regions.
But recently the EU countries accepted legislative precautions enable to grow a special cultivars of Cannabis Sativa L. that fulfil the strict norm for low contain of narcotic compounds. And so cannabis returns on European fields and become a very watched crop. This time not for it's narcotic compounds known as cannabinoids but for it's modern possibilities of use cannabis for production of energy, plastic, building materials, feeds or cosmetics and medications.
Grow of cannabis in the Czech Republic underlies to the notification duty by law no.167/1998 Sb. Producers are allowed to seed the fields only with authorized type of Cannabis sativa . These types have a lower contain of THC in dry matter according to EU norms. Most fields are in North Bohemian, South Bohemian and in Pilsen and Haná region. A significant impediment to expansion of cannabis grow is machine mechanisation. There is not enough of machines designed exclusively for processing of cannabis. They are imported from abroad from another traditional grow regions or they are borrowed only for certain time. Fortunately there is already a few prototypes designed for little and medium produce.
In the Czech Republic is Cannabis sativa going through a little renesance. Cannabis is an object of studies and projects that aim for return of cannabis grow and it's processing as a raw material for produce of textile goods and single-purpose components for the industry. Considered is also use for energetic industry as a source of renewable source of energy.
Cannabis was commonly used until 1950 also as a pharmaceutical material for produce of medication of classic and homeopathic medicine. Although cannabis has many effective compounds that can be used for medical purposes (not just tetrahydrocannabinol Δ9-THC), the research and development of medication was stoped.
Recently is cannabis used in medicine very rarely for treatment of patients unable to be cured by contemporary medication. It can be an extreme loss of weight in patients with AIDS or for reduction of chemotherapy's side effects. Experimentally is used for cure of addiction on opiates and alcohol. Tentatively was grow of cannabis established in Canada. It was the first country in the world where was at the end of july 2001 permitted to use cannabis for medical purposes.
In the Czech Republic it is prohibited to grow the indian cannabis and exceptions for experimental purposes are awarded very rarely. For purposes of food-processing, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industry can be used only cannabis seeds and oil (squeezed from seeds) of authorized types of Cannabis Satival L. Cannabinoids are contained mostly in glandular structures of the plant (leaves and stems).
Cannabis seeds and roots do not contain these compounds even in a trace amount.
