Manfred Fankhauser has become known in his village as “the cannabis chemist”
In Switzerland, a growing number of patients and doctors are making use of medicines containing cannabis and THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), its psychoactive constituent. Pioneers have worked to give cannabis a new lease of life in medicine, including in Switzerland. In this article swissinfo.ch tells the stories of four people: a grower, a pharmacist, a doctor and a patient. They point out the virtues but also the limits of one of the most controversial medicinal plants in history.
Read this article by Luigi Jorio, with images by Thomas Kern and video by Carlo Pisani http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/longform/cannabis
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