Any restrictions to limit access to medicinal cannabis will adversely impact patients and simply drive users to the illicit market, the industry has warned, as it hit back at calls to remove the medicine from the Special Access Scheme (SAS).

In a joint letter to the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), Queensland representatives from the Australian Medical Association (AMA), the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) and the Pharmacy Guild of Australia urged the regulator to address what they claimed were “inadequate controls” on medicinal cannabis.

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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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