"I found the peach!"

At the age of 80, Léa uses therapeutic cannabis against her osteoarthritis.

What future for therapeutic cannabis? Creuse farmers are asking permission to produce cannabis for medicinal use and use cannabidiol, one of the active ingredients. RMC met Léa, 80, who uses this derivative.

In cannabis, there are two active substances: THC, substance that produces the hovering and addictive effect of cannabis, and CBD, cannabidiol, which causes a relaxing or sedative effect. And there is perfect hypocrisy in France on this molecule.

It is already authorized for sale, it is already found in some drugs, in liquids for electronic cigarette. But all this is often sold only on the Internet, and especially manufactured abroad. As RMC has seen with Léa, soon 80, who is treating his deforming osteoarthritis, thanks to a derivative.

Victim of this disease for ten years, and after years without finding an effective treatment, she tries a year ago a product based on cannabis, cannabidiol. The effect is immediate. "I found the fishing, the morale!" Even my doctor found the difference He said to me: 'If it relieves you, keep it up!' So, I'm not taking any more medicine, I'm only taking that’s a capsule in the morning and off you go! "

"My mother is not drugged"

It's his daughter Gilda, who buys the drug on the internet. "Every month, it's 39 euros, it's a cost, I think it's a shame that you cannot buy it in a pharmacy, people who take it are not addicts, and it’s a derivative. Mother is not addicted to everyday life! «She laughs.

For Michel Reynaud, Addictologist and President of the Equity Addictions Fund, these products may be of great interest: "There are really a lot of tests that show that these cannabis compounds have medical and therapeutic effects, but in France there is a blindness that prevents a serene, reasonable and scientific debate ". The specialist hopes that more studies will be done to better understand the effects of therapeutic cannabis.

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