Terrance Parker suffered from severe epilepsy since he was a young child. He could substantially reduce the incidence of seizures by smoking marihuana, but he had no legal source of marihuana. Parker was charged with cultivating marihuana under the Narcotic Control Act and with possession of marihuana under the new Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. …Read more

The plaintiff, the legal representative of her underage son who suffered from cancer, filed a guarantee of protection of individual constitutional rights (amparo protection) against the National State, the Ministry of Health and Social Action to condemn them to supply an experimental treatment that was tested in some patients, including the plaintiff’s son.  The experimental drug …Read more