Medicinal cannabis treatment saves Russian man from asylum rejection

A Russian man being handled with medicinal hashish can’t be faraway from the Netherlands regardless of a rejected asylum request as a result of the drug isn’t accessible in his house nation, the EU’s Court docket of Justice dominated on Tuesday.

The person developed a uncommon type of blood most cancers on the age of 16 and is presently receiving medical therapy within the Netherlands that features medicinal hashish to assist relieve his ache.

He had made plenty of requests for asylum within the Netherlands however his final one was rejected in 2020.

“He takes the view that he needs to be issued with a residence allow or, on the very least, his removing needs to be postponed” since he would “now not be capable of lead a good life if that therapy was discontinued,” the EU’s prime courtroom stated in an announcement.

The courtroom dominated that EU legislation prevents international locations from returning non-EU residents who’re staying illegally within the bloc if they’re “affected by a critical sickness” and if returning the particular person to their nation would trigger “a speedy, vital and everlasting enhance” in ache.

The courtroom stated two circumstances should be met: that the ache therapy can’t be administered within the receiving nation (on this case Russia) and that the absence of the therapy would result in “ache of such depth that it could be opposite to human dignity.”

In keeping with the request for a preliminary ruling issued in February 2021, the Russian man had stated the medicinal hashish therapy might relieve the ache by about 70%.

He stated that with out hashish he would “not be capable of sleep or eat due to the ache” which might make him turn out to be “depressed and suicidal”.

“The failure to offer ache aid would due to this fact lead to a short-term medical emergency,” the request for a ruling continued.