Cannabinoids scripts
December 10, 2013
A paper published yesterday in
the Medical Journal of Australia has
advocated the reintroduction of
medicinal cannabis in Australia.
The authors include Laurence
Mather, Emeritus Professor of
Anasthaesia at Sydney University
Medical School, and urge that
“national acceptance of medicinal
cannabis should be implemented
based exclusively on evidence of
its clinical efficacy, safety and costeffectiveness,
and that necessary
legal reforms permitting medical
prescription should be enacted, as
has been done in many countries”.
The article also cites a NSW
parliamentary committee which
in May this year unanimously
recommended making cannabis
available for selected conditions.
If implemented, doctors and
pharmacists will require further
education about cannabis and how
to instruct patients in its use.
The article recommends that
pharmacists be authorised to
dispense medicinal-grade cannabis
in its raw form, as well as having
nabiximols oromucosal spray as an
alternative finished product.
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