Renewed government warnings over the potentially grave health risks of buying illegal medicinal cannabis online – including fake branded product – will go unheeded unless consumers are given more pragmatic reasons to seek medicine through legal channels, it has been claimed.

Senior industry executives broadly welcomed the fresh initiative from the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) which, in effect, warned consumers they were playing a dangerous game of Russian roulette by sourcing illicit product online.

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Steve has reported for a number of consumer and B2B titles over a journalism career spanning more than three decades. He is a regulator contributor to health journal, The Medical Republic, writing on...

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