failings of the stupid current system for medicinal access to cannabis

[doctor_nelson]

https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2018/01/12/medicinal-cannabis-australia/

 

 

 

tl;dr Medicinal cannabis use is all very well, but it involves really complicated science and politics to get right so while the knuckle dragging suits in Canberra figure out how to do it safely, FFS just let adults grow a couple of plants in private for personal use and divert all those law enforcement resources to more useful endeavors.

 

Greens at least having a whinge:

 

Senator Richard Di Natale said “the government model” of using the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) to control patient access to medicinal cannabis had been a “failure”.

His comments come after an investigation by The New Daily found prominent underground medicinal cannabis suppliers were selling contaminated products to seriously ill patients.

The New Daily arranged for independent testing of a number of medicinal cannabis products obtained on the black market by desperate customers frustrated by the Australian system.

Fourteen samples of cannabis extract – sold to chronically and terminally ill Australians for hundreds to thousands of dollars – were tested by a top Australian research facility (which did not want to be named).

Contrary to some suppliers’ claims, seven of the cannabis products contained no cannabidiol (CBD) which according to the TGA is “the main non-psychoactive substance extracted from cannabis due its therapeutic benefit”.

Although patients “shouldn’t have to rely on getting products externally tested”, Senator Di Natale said this would become an inevitable necessity “in the absence of regulations that deliver a product of known quality and purity”.

Edited January 29, 2018 by doctor_nelson