nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20220625-042210-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 220624s2022||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20220625-042210-0 doi eng 342 23 Peluso Neder Meyer, Emilio Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-7500-0705 Courts and Cannabis Sativa for Medical Purposes in Brazil Peluso Neder Meyer, Emilio Verfassungsblog 2022-06-24 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The Brazilian Superior Court of Justice – not the Federal Supreme Court – had recently decided that planting and transporting cannabis sativa aiming at extracting oil for medical ends shall not be treated as a crime. Contrary to the recent allegations of judicial activism made by President Jair Bolsonaro against the Brazilian judiciary, the Superior Court of Justice ruling is a good example of a decision based on the 1988 Constitution, the statutory law referred to in the case and several other authorities contributions, which all helped to construct the court’s arguments, as this post will show. CC BY-SA 4.0 Brazil Courts Cannabis Cannabislegalisierung Drug Policies Judicial Activism Bustamante, Thomas Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-4493-0088 Tangerino, Davi Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/courts-and-cannabis-sativa-in-brazil/ raw object