Draft law No. 10313 on amendments to existing legislation pertaining to ensuring individual fundamental rights to life, including the legalization of the sale of medical cannabis, was registered by 51 Members of Parliament from various parliamentary factions.
The bill was drafted pursuant to a corresponding petition.
The text of the document is not available on the parliament’s website yet.
As reported, a petition for legalizing medical cannabis was registered on the parliament’s website on January 30, 2019. More than 25,000 persons supported the measure during 42 days.
According to the Ukrainian Association of Medical Cannabis, the lack of access of Ukrainian citizens to medical cannabis “violates the constitutional right of about two million Ukrainian citizens to life and access to effective treatment.”
The petition, in part, demands legislatively regulating the access of patients to medicines with cannabis used to treat chronic pain, epilepsy, anorexia, post-traumatic stress disorder, immunological disorders, arthritis and rheumatism, asthma, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, herpes, ulcers, weight loss during AIDS, diabetic neuropathy, various forms of sclerosis and many other serious diseases.
