With the clock ticking down on New Zealand’s transitional medicinal cannabis scheme, the number of products available to patients is about to be slashed and prices are set to spike. In an article republished from NZ Drug Foundation’s Matters of Substance, Russell Brown takes a deep dive into the rules that take effect from October 1 2021, and why it’s so hard to get products approved for sale.
Prescribing medicinal cannabis was so much simpler in the 1950s. Until the World Health Organisation asked our government to ban imports in 1955, bringing us into line with emerging United Nations policy, New Zealanders could go to their doctors and request a tincture of cannabis to treat a migraine or hypertension headache.
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