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 The measure will become law once it is signed by President Mauricio
Macri, whose Cambiemos party sponsored the bill.
"Thirty percent of epileptics do not respond to traditional
medicine," medical doctor Ana María García Nicora, who heads the
Medical Cannabis Argentina group, told local television after the
Senate's final vote on the measure.
"My daughter has had epilepsy for 24 years and this is an option for
her," she said.
Chile and Colombia have adopted similar laws and neighboring Uruguay
has gone as far as to legalize smoking marijuana, seeking to wrest
the business from criminals in the small South American nation.
A bill approving the use of cannabis oil is pending in Peru's
Congress. In January, healthcare regulators in Brazil issued the
country's first license for sale of an oral spray derived from
marijuana used to treat multiple sclerosis.
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(Reporting by Maximiliano Rizzi; Writing by Hugh Bronstein; Editing
by Peter Cooney)
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