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The peak medical and pharmaceutical bodies in the country have told the health minister urgent action is needed to stop the prescription of medicinal cannabis from being “exploited”.
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) and the Pharmacy Guild of Australia have written a joint letter to the health minister, Mark Butler, calling for urgent action to tackle the largely unregulated increase in medicinal cannabis prescribing and dispensing across the country.
We are seeing a system that is being exploited – with prescriptions issued without proper clinical oversight and patients bypassing their regular GP and pharmacist. What began as a special pathway for medication has now become the norm with thousands of products prescribed without safety, quality or efficacy controls.
This is a singular achievement by President Trump. Only the president of the United States could bring this about. And as I said on Friday, he deserves enormous congratulations … it is an enormous achievement. We haven’t seen this sort of progress in the Middle East for some time. And he’s brought, you know, this conflict to a pause and hopefully to an end, and has a pathway to peace that he’s been so critical in articulating.
We haven’t been asked, so I’m not going to get ahead of myself. And what I have said all along is … we want to play our part in contributing momentum to peace. That’s how we’ve sought to approach these matters for a long time.
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