Confusing for doctors, inequitable for patients: why Australia’s medicinal cannabis system needs urgent reform
As more and more people receive medicinal cannabis prescriptions, we’re left with a system that is misaligned with its original purpose.
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In 2024 alone, Australia’s medicines regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), authorised at least 979,000 prescription applications for medicinal cannabis th…