2015年考研必讀《經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)人》節(jié)選：智利大麻

　　Cannabis in Chile

　　智利大麻

　　Easing the agony

　　減輕痛苦

　　The state relaxes its stance on the use of the drug as a painkiller

　　政府立場(chǎng)松綁，允許大麻作為止痛藥使用

　　CECILIA HEYDER has breast cancer. She also has systemic lupus, a disease of the immune system. She's had a mastectomy, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. She has taken many painkillers, often with side effects as bad as her symptoms. Last year, in desperation, she asked a doctor what else she could take to relieve her agony. He took out a pen and drew her a cannabis leaf. “It was as if he didn't dare speak the drug's name,” Ms Heyder recalls.

　　塞西莉亞·海德?tīng)柣加腥橄侔┩瑫r(shí)伴有系統(tǒng)性紅斑狼瘡這種免疫系統(tǒng)疾病。她做了乳房切除手術(shù)，接受放射治療和化療。她吃了大量的止痛藥，其副作用就像她的癥狀那樣嚴(yán)重。去年，近乎絕望的她咨詢醫(yī)生還有什么藥可以幫她減輕痛苦。醫(yī)生拿了一支筆畫(huà)了一片大麻葉子。海德?tīng)柣貞洠骸搬t(yī)生選擇寫(xiě)下而不是直接說(shuō)出來(lái)仿佛他不敢講出藥名似的?！?/p>

　　A 48-year-old mother of two, Ms Heyder had only dabbled with cannabis as a teenager. But she got hold of some leaves and used them to make tea. The result was startling. It was far more effective than any conventional painkiller she had used.

　　48 歲的海德?tīng)?，兩個(gè)孩子的母親，僅在青少年時(shí)期接觸過(guò)大麻。但是她得到了一些大麻葉子并用它們泡茶喝。結(jié)果令人驚喜，該茶水比任何她使用過(guò)的傳統(tǒng)止痛藥都管用。

　　Inspired by her illicit experiment, Ms Heyder looked for Sativex, a cannabinoid medicine, but it was unavailable in Chile. She persuaded the government to let her import it; the drugs arrived from Europein September. The Chilean authorities say it's the first time a cannabis-based treatment has been legally brought to Latin America.

　　盡管她的嘗試不合法，受其鼓勵(lì)，海德?tīng)栭_(kāi)始尋找四氫大麻酚這種含有大麻成分的藥物，但是該藥在智利買不到。她說(shuō)服政府準(zhǔn)許她進(jìn)口該藥，九月藥品從歐洲運(yùn)抵智利。智利政府稱這是首次基于大麻的療法合法地引入拉丁美洲。

　　But Sativex is pricey. It costs Ms Heyder 2,000 a month. When her stash runs out she will have to buy more cannabis on the streets. “I don't want to go back to the fear of being arrested,” she says.

　　但是四氫大麻酚價(jià)格昂貴。每月海德?tīng)査幤烽_(kāi)支達(dá)到2000 美元。當(dāng)她的儲(chǔ)蓄耗盡之時(shí)她將不得不在黑市購(gòu)買大麻。但是她說(shuō)：“我不想再因?yàn)楹ε卤徊抖鴵?dān)驚受怕”。

　　In view of the cost of cannabinoid medicines, campaigners in Chile are arguing for the right to make cheaper alternatives. In September they won a ground-breaking victory. The Daya Foundation, a local not-for-profit outfit, was allowed to grow cannabis on land in LaFlorida, a district of Santiago. It will be used to make a painkiller for 200 cancer sufferers. The seeds were sown on October 29th. Blessed by the state, it is the first such project in Latin America.Uruguay made waves by legalising recreational marijuana use; now Chile is blazing a trail for the medicinal

　　考慮到含大麻成分的藥品價(jià)格昂貴，智利的運(yùn)動(dòng)發(fā)起者為爭(zhēng)取得到廉價(jià)的可替代藥品而努力。九月，他們?nèi)〉昧送黄菩缘膭倮?。達(dá)亞基金會(huì)，當(dāng)?shù)匾粋€(gè)非盈利性機(jī)構(gòu)被允許在圣地亞哥的弗羅里達(dá)區(qū)種植大麻。生產(chǎn)的大麻將為200 多名癌癥患者提供止痛藥。種子已經(jīng)于十月29 日播種。多虧了智利政府，該項(xiàng)目在拉丁美洲是首個(gè)。烏拉圭對(duì)娛樂(lè)用途的大麻合法化引起各方態(tài)度博弈，現(xiàn)在智利在醫(yī)用大麻合法化的征程開(kāi)辟了道路。