Potential cost to patient safety as New Zealand debates access to medicinal cannabis

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Potential cost to patient safety as New Zealand debates access to medicinal cannabis

Cannabis
The New Zealand Government is introducing a scheme for regulating medicinal cannabis

CLINICAL COMMENT

Michelle Glass and John Ashton
from the University of Otago discuss whether untested cannabis-based products should enter the New Zealand healthcare system, as proposed by the Government’s recent consultation document

Cannabis-based products will be allowed to bypass usual processes required for medicines in New Zealand and go directly onto the market without any pr