Instead, a patient must seek out another script for a different brand of cannabis medicine and pay a new consultation fee. The Office of Drug Control has so far issued 35 local cannabis licences. A patient who uses medicinal cannabis to treat their ailments recently remarked in a social media forum that at present it’s taking their chemist at least two weeks from payment to fill their prescription for cannabis medicine. Cannabis clinics have overcome the issue of local GPs unversed in the use of cannabis being reluctant to prescribe it. Sending it elsewhere In February 2016, the Turnbull government passed laws establishing a framework for the legal cultivation, production and supply of medicinal cannabis in this country.
“vulnerable people” at the mercy of exorbitant consultation fees and imported product prices, whilst trying to act in a law-abiding manner and avoid the black market.
A patient who uses medicinal cannabis to treat their ailments recently remarked in a social media forum that at present it’s taking their chemist at least two weeks from payment to fill their prescription for cannabis medicine.
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09 January 2021
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