Medicinal marijuana: Harvest time begins at Latin America’s largest marijuana farm

Latin America’s largest farm growing marijuana for medical use, located in southern Chile, has begun its harvest.
The medicines produced from the marijuana will be used to treat around 4,000 patients suffering from chronic painUruguay is the only country in the world that has fully legalized marijuana.
“With one for every six people, that’s enough for the whole of Chile.”Meléndez oversees the progress of the 6,400 plants seeded last November in this field in Quinamávida, 320 kilometers south of the Chilean capital of Santiago.
Sponsored by the Daya Foundation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to alleviating human suffering, it hopes to pick 1.5 tons of the plant by mid-April.
“It’s an unprecedented initiative in the region,” says Daya’s Ana María Gazmuri, who is supervising the project.

Fuente: http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/03/24/inenglish/1458829507_507483.html