medicinal

The Irish minister for health has signed a license for a seven-year old from County Cork to access medicinal cannabis. Ava Barry suffers from a severe form of epilepsy known as Dravet syndrome. On Tuesday, Simon Harris told the Dáil (Irish Parliament) he could not comment on individual...

The public can start submitting applications to grow cannabis for medicinal and research purposes. The Medical Innovation Bill was discussed by MPs on Wednesday. It proposes legalizing dagga for medicinal purposes. The guidelines and regulations form part of the Medical Innovation...

Under the new regulations Polish pharmacies will be allowed to manufacture medicines taken from imported cannabis plants. Pharmacists in Poland have been given the go-ahead to make and distribute pharmaceutical products using cannabis after the Polish government made the drug legal for...

In the 12 months since the introduction of legal medicinal cannabis in Australia, the government's laborious and highly-criticized legislation has resulted in frustration, anger and disenchantment for the very people it was intended to help most. The government is perhaps the only remaining...

As of 1 January 2018 it will be possible to obtain a receipt for medicinal cannabis, thanks to a broadly-supported decision by Parliament last year. Now, a decision is to be made on whether it can be grown in Denmark. A total of 13 companies have already applied for permission from the...

In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday morning, Senator Orrin Hatch made the case for medical marijuana. During the hearing Hatch questioned U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions about a path forward for marijuana research. Hatch made the case that because there is only one...

All African nations are capable of cultivating medicinal marijuana to exploit a growing international acceptance of cannabis-based medicines. The current global market for marijuana products is US$3 billion and is expected to rise to US$56 billion as more countries and US states join the...

Protesters will scoff cannabis tea and cakes outside Parliament tomorrow in a bid to legalize the drug for medicinal use. Campaigners expect hundreds of people at a 'cannabis tea party' which they've dubbed a "very civil bit of disobedience". Cancer patients and multiple sclerosis...

In June, the Senate voted to amend Category A of the Therapeutic Goods Administration's (TGA) Special Access Scheme (SAS) and fast-track access to imported medical cannabis for a small group of terminally ill patients who had already been prescribed the treatment by their doctors. Medicinal...

The Greens leader, Richard di Natale, has accused the federal government of "ignoring the will of parliament" on the importation of medicinal cannabis as doctors complain that the current system has "multiple obstacles" that prevent terminally ill patients from obtaining the drug. Di Natale...

No consultant has applied for a license to use medicinal cannabis to treat a patient, Health Minister Simon Harris has confirmed, Evelyn Ring. "I know there are difficult cases out there and I know that, at a human level, our hearts would go out to anybody in a difficult case," said Mr...

Labor leader Jacinda Ardern has very firmly locked in her position on medicinal use of cannabis, a succinct answer in a debate strongly paralleled by National leader Bill English. In the TVNZ leaders debate, both were asked to answer in 30 seconds whether they would legalize cannabis for...

Tasmanians will be able to apply to access medicinal cannabis from Friday, but doctors and advocates have concerns about how the scheme will work. East Tamar mother Lyn Cleaver uses medicinal cannabis to treat her 26-year-old son Jeremy's seizures. She has applied to access Tasmania's...

Medicinal cannabis, also known as medicinal marijuana, is used either to treat disease or improve symptoms. Cannabis has been considered to be a major source of drug addiction. Extract from the dried flower bud part of the plant called as Marijuana has certain medicinal properties. The two...

A Tamworth movement helped change the tide on medicinal cannabis in Australia, but our local advocates are struggling to take pride in today’s system, where compassion has taken a backseat to political point-scoring. Lucy Haslam says the medicinal cannabis conversation in Australia needs to be...

The proposed regulations to govern the medicinal cannabis unit (MCU) that was established at the health ministry are now being finalized and will be submitted to Cabinet shortly. At the same time, the ministry has reported that a total of 80 persons have been trained and certified to...

The TGA has criticized claims that red tape turns patients to black market cannabis And one medicinal cannabis stakeholder says that doctors are unready when it comes to prescribing the drug. The TGA has responded to claims made on the Lateline program that patients are turning to the...

Frustrated Australian patients could still be several years away from their GPs prescribing medicinal cannabis, the Australian Medical Association's (AMA) vice president has warned. Since publishing a range of stories on medicinal cannabis, many readers have contacted nine.com.au complaining...

A mountain of red tape for legal medicinal cannabis is forcing the families of seriously ill patients back into the black market, according to doctors and advocates. Sydney GP Brad McKay said he had tried at length to prescribe the medicine for his patients but had been blocked at every turn...

Doctors will be able to prescribe the first South Australian-produced medicinal cannabis products from next month. GD Pharma's oils will hit the market in September after the pharmaceutical manufacturer recently received the green light to import two types of cannabis-derived products...