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First cannabis farm for medical purposes in Brazil

Teenager Sofia Langenbach has been using cannabis since she was five years old.

She was just a toddler when her parents planted three cannabis sativa plants on the balcony of the family's apartment in Botafogo, southern Rio, in 2016.

Growing this type of plant is prohibited by law in Brazil.

Still, lawyer Margarete Brito and designer Marcos Langenbach, the girl's parents, planted the "little garden" anyway because Sofia is a carrier of a rare congenital syndrome and depends on the oil extracted from cannabis to avoid suffering severe seizures.

Shortly after that, the family obtained the country's . . .

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