Cannabis

The Pharmaceutical Society is concerned there will no consistency in the quality of available medicinal cannabis products if legislation allowing terminally ill patients access to the drug is approved in its current format

Pharmacy Today contributor Des Bailey is of the opinion that as a pharmacist and drug expert he has a pivotal role to play in the cannabis debate

The Pharmaceutical Society is concerned patient safety will be jeopardised if legislation allowing terminally ill patients access to medicinal cannabis is approved in its current format.

NZMA chair Kate Baddock has criticised the Government’s ap­proach to relaxing the law on can­nabis, describing it as “muddled”

The health select committee is seeking opinions on a government bill which would introduce an exception and statutory defence for terminally ill people to use illicit cannabis 

We have a new government, and one of the changes we will see in terms of health policy is the legalisation of marijuana for medical use.

MPs have backed the first reading of a government bill enabling terminally ill people to use cannabis to alleviate their symptoms, but one GP says it doesn't go nearly far enough