Dr Peyraube is Medical Doctor and specialist in the field of Drug Policy and Cannabis for Medicinal purposes. Throughout her career she has been involved in training, prevention, treatment and drug related harm reduction, including innovative theoretical and methodological developments with an emphasis on ethical issues, which earned her regional and international recognition. She has been advocating for drug policy reform in several countries.
In her home country, Uruguay, she has been ad hoc advisor to the National Board on Drugs (SND) in the reform of the public drug policy and the Institute of Regulation and Control of Cannabis (IRCCA) of Uruguay, and actively participated in the drafting of the law that regulates Cannabis for all purposes.
Racquel is a member of the International Association for Cannabinoid Medicines (IACM) and of the group of experts working on the public health recommendations for Cannabis regulation, coordinated by the O’Neill Institute of the Georgetown University, Washington DC, and the Washington Office for Latin America (WOLA).
Dr Peyraube is the designer and academic coordinator of the 1st International Medical Cannabis Course for physicians and nurses endorsed by IACM, a protocol designed to be implemented in different contexts. Also, she is scientific advisor to foundations and companies working in the field of medical Cannabis who are interested in developing clinical trials and public education.
In May 2017 she founded the Uruguayan Society of Endocannabinology and is its founder president. Currently she is dedicated to Cannabis medicine practice, the development of protocols for clinical trials for research, medical cannabis education for health professionals, and consulting on Drug Policy Reform, particularly Cannabis legalization in different countries.
For the first time since it’s undemocratic banning in the 1930’s, calls for the legalisation of the plant now outnumber the prohibitionists in the United States of America.
Criminalising people for consuming a natural plant is an arbitrary violation of fundamental inalienable human rights.
Well said! It’s an outrage on every level
I recently watched a full interview with an American oncologist who after a career prescribing conventional radiation and toxic therapies, opted to use “Rick Simpson’s” Cannabis oil instead and cured his own colon cancer in three months. After a second opinion showed there were still malignancies albeit reduced in size and number. He followed up with an additional three months treatment and was tested clear of cancer. He would not be recognised as a cancer survivor because the self serving definition of the pharmaceutical companies is 5 years. Someone who dies at 5 years and one day is for ever recorded as a survival statistic.
Cannabis is only illegal because it terrifies the murderous Big Pharma industry.
While supporting prohibition, the DEA has patented a few synthetic immitations which don’t work as well as the natural plant while the giant GM pharmaceuticals have tens of thousands of plants under cultivation in the South of England. They know time is running out. The war on People who know the blessings of this “Tree of Life” is going down sooner or later.
I’m interested in the South African survey. Any idea where i can find out more? Thanks