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		<title>Una Madre Contro una Balia Oltraggiosa</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2014 11:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cosa faresti se tua figlia avesse un male incurabile? Una figlia destinata a passare il resto della sua vita tra crisi frequenti, che non possono essere alleviate da nessuna delle medicine disponibili nel tuo paese? O, peggio, le medicine esistono e si possono comprare all’estero, ma il tuo paese ti proibisce di farlo e ti...]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cosa faresti se tua figlia avesse un male incurabile? Una figlia destinata a passare il resto della sua vita tra crisi frequenti, che non possono essere alleviate da nessuna delle medicine disponibili nel tuo paese? O, peggio, le medicine esistono e si possono comprare all’estero, ma il tuo paese ti proibisce di farlo e ti etichetta come criminale se lo fai. Cosa faresti se, per alleviare le crisi di tua figlia e darle un po’ di pace, tu dovessi andare contro lo stato e importare illegalmente marijuana?</p>
<p>Questa è una storia vera. Katiele sta combattendo per poter trattare gli attacchi di epilessia di sua figlia con il CBD (cannabidiolo), una sostanza estratta dalla marijuana e proibita in Brasile. Prendendo a pretesto la lotta alla droga, i burocrati dell’Anvisa (l’ente brasiliano che controlla la salute) hanno deciso che la marijuana non si può usare per usi medici.</p>
<p>Come spiega Katiele nel suo video (giustamente intitolato <a href="http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctjj1pzmkxs"><i>Illegale</i></a>), nessun’altra medicina disponibile in Brasile può curare la malattia di sua figlia. Nessuna. Tranne il CBD. Ostacolo: Il governo brasiliano proibisce la marijuana tanto per svago quanto per uso medico. Cosa fare? “La disperazione nel vedere che tua figlia ha crisi giornaliere, ad ogni ora, è così grande che abbiamo deciso di affrontare la questione comunque, anche a costo di importare la medicina illegalmente, che è quello che abbiamo fatto,” dice.</p>
<p>Secondo lo stato, questa madre ha agito da criminale. Secondo chi ha un minimo di senso della giustizia, ha fatto la cosa giusta. Ci sono casi in cui le persone per bene sono costrette ad andare contro la legge, fino alla <a href="http://liberzone.com.br/quem-tem-medo-da-desobediencia-civil-empreendedora/">disobbedienza civile imprenditoriale</a>. Se, andando contro la legge, non fai male a nessuno o addirittura porti benefici, generando valore, questo di per sé dimostra che la legge in questione impedisce il benessere della società generato attraverso la libera produzione, lo scambio e l’associazione. Questo è ancora più significativo quando il valore generato è la salute di una bambina epilettica.</p>
<p>Il cinque aprile, <a href="http://oglobo.globo.com/pais/decisao-na-justica-obriga-anvisa-liberar-tratamento-com-derivado-da-maconha-12084313">Katiele e sua figlia hanno conseguito una vittoria giudiziaria</a>. Con una decisione storica, la corte costituzionale di Brasilia ha stabilito che l’Anvisa deve fornire alla famiglia il CBD necessario al trattamento della malattia.</p>
<p>Purtroppo non finisce qui. L’ente può ancora ricorrere in appello. Il divieto all’uso medico della marijuana in Brasile continua, e la guerra alla droga, con tutte le sue conseguenze sciagurate, va avanti. A quanto pare, in questo paese bisogna fare ricorso contro lo stato se si vuole avere la possibilità di curare un male perfettamente evitabile e curabile. E tutto perché qualche burocrate ha deciso che la marijuana è un male.</p>
<p>Posso immaginare la sofferenza di questa madre. Mia sorella soffriva di epilessia dalla nascita. Sarebbe stato triste vederla soffrire senza cure, con crisi frequenti, solo perché c’era qualcuno che le impediva l’accesso ai farmaci.</p>
<p>Nota: La questione non è l’assenza di cure. Non è che la madre non ha i soldi e i mezzi per procurarsi le medicine. E anche se non avesse avuto soldi, avrebbe potuto sperare ancora: con le donazioni da parte di istituzioni filantropiche, ad esempio. Il problema è che lo stato si mette in mezzo tra lei e l’accesso legale alla cura.</p>
<p>In un articolo scritto per Center for a Stateless Society, Marja Erwin <a href="http://c4ss.org/content/24733">ha sollevato la questione</a> di come una società libera, anche una anarchica, potrebbe affrontare il problema dei disabili, e se lo “scambio, di per sé, include pienamente le persone disabili”. Le società basate sullo stato negano sistematicamente l’accesso a medicinali e cure con <a href="http://dataspace.princeton.edu/jspui/bitstream/88435/dsp018s45q8821/1/flanigan_princeton_0181d_10343.pdf">pretesti paternalistici</a>, talvolta diventando l’ostacolo principale, imponendo barriere poste all’innovazione medica e incrementando i costi delle cure.</p>
<p>Cercare di ridurre la sofferenza di qualcuno non dovrebbe essere un atto illegale. Al contrario, illegale dovrebbe essere lo stato che condanna la figlia di Katiele alla sofferenza perpetua. Illegale dovrebbe essere l’esistenza stessa dello stato, i cui atti ricordano l’iscrizione sulla porta dell’inferno dantesco: “Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch’entrate.”</p>
<p><a href="http://pulgarias.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Traduzione di Enrico Sanna</a>.</p>
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		<title>A Mother vs. an Abusive Nanny</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2014 18:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What would you do if your daughter had an incurable disease? A daughter destined to spend the rest of her life having frequent seizures, uncontrollable by any medicine available in your country? Or, worse: whose only medicine could be acquired abroad, but your country forbids it and labels you a criminal if you do that?...]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What would you do if your daughter had an incurable disease? A daughter destined to spend the rest of her life having frequent seizures, uncontrollable by any medicine available in your country? Or, worse: whose only medicine could be acquired abroad, but your country forbids it and labels you a criminal if you do that? What would you do if, to control your daughter&#8217;s seizures and give her a modicum of comfort, you had to go against the state and import medical marijuana illegally?</p>
<p>That is a true story. Katiele struggles to treat her daughter&#8217;s epilepsy with CBD (Cannabidiol), a substance derived from marijuana and forbidden in Brazil. As part of the Brazilian war on drugs, Anvisa (National Health Surveillance Agency) bureaucrats have decided that the medical use of marijuana is impermissible inside the country.</p>
<p>As Katiele explains in her video (fittingly titled <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtJJ1pzMKxs"><i>Illegal</i></a>), no other medicine available in Brazil can control her daughter&#8217;s disease. None. Nevertheless, she found out that CBD is an effective alternative. The obstacle: The Brazilian government forbids the recreational as well as medicinal use of marijuana. What should she do, then? &#8220;The despair of having your daughter seizing every day, every time, is so huge that we decided to deal with it no matter what it took, even if we had to bring the medicine in illegally, and that&#8217;s what we did,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>According to the state, this mother acted as a criminal. For anyone with a minimal sense of justice, she did the right thing. There are times when the only alternative for decent people is to break the law, including through <a href="http://liberzone.com.br/quem-tem-medo-da-desobediencia-civil-empreendedora/">entrepreneurial civil disobedience</a>. If you, in breaking the law, do not hurt anyone and even benefits people, generating value, that by itself shows that the law in question obstructs society&#8217;s well-being generated through free production, exchange and association. That is even more salient when the value generated is the health of a epileptic kid.</p>
<p>On April 5, <a href="http://oglobo.globo.com/pais/decisao-na-justica-obriga-anvisa-liberar-tratamento-com-derivado-da-maconha-12084313">Katiele and her daughter had a judicial victory</a>. In an historic decision, the federal justice in Brasilia determined that Anvisa should provide the family with CBD for the administration of treatment.</p>
<p>This is not the end, however. The agency can still appeal, the ban on medical marijuana continues in Brazil and the war on drugs, with all its dire consequences, goes on. Apparently, in this country, you have to sue the state to be able to get a permit to prevent such a very avoidable and treatable condition, just because some bureaucrat decided at some point that marijuana is evil.</p>
<p>I can imagine how this mother has suffered. My own sister had a birth condition and suffered from epilepsy. It would have been sad to see her going untreated and having constant seizures because there is someone blocking access to medicine.</p>
<p>Note: The point is not that there is no treatment. It is not that the mother does not have the money and the means to get hold of the medicine. If she did not have money, there would still be hope: Donations or philanthropic institutions, for example. The problem is that the state stands between the mother and legal access to treatment.</p>
<p>In an article for the Center for a Stateless Society, Marja Erwin <a href="http://c4ss.org/content/24733">brought up the question</a> of how a free society, even an anarchist one, would deal with disability, and whether &#8220;exchange, on its own, fully includes those of us with disabilities.&#8221; Statist societies  have systematically denied the access to medicine or treatments on <a href="http://dataspace.princeton.edu/jspui/bitstream/88435/dsp018s45q8821/1/Flanigan_princeton_0181D_10343.pdf">paternalistic grounds</a> and are at times the largest hindrance to health care, either due to hurdles to medical innovations or due to the increased costs of treatment.</p>
<p>Trying to minimize someone&#8217;s agony should not be against the law. What should be against the law, however, is the nanny state&#8217;s condemnation of Katiele&#8217;s daughter to perpetual suffering. What should be against the law is the existence of such an institution as the state, whose acts within its borders remind us of the inscription on the door of Dante Alighieri&#8217;s hell: &#8220;Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.&#8221;</p>
<p>Translated from Portuguese into English by <a href="http://c4ss.org/content/author/erick-vasconcelos">Erick Vasconcelos</a>.</p>
<p>Translations for this article:</p>
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<li>Spanish, <a href="http://c4ss.org/content/26309" target="_blank">Una madre contra una niñera abusiva</a>.</li>
<li>Portuguese, <a href="http://c4ss.org/content/26280" target="_blank">A mãe contra a babá abusiva</a>.</li>
<li>Italian, <a href="http://c4ss.org/content/26997" target="_blank">Una Madre Contro una Balia Oltraggiosa</a>.</li>
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