EXCLUSIVE: New, streamlined processes are set to simplify Australia’s cumbersome Authorised Prescriber scheme in a move which could encourage more GPs to offer medicinal cannabis to patients, Cannabiz has learned.

Under changes quietly drawn up by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), Human Research Ethics Committees (HREC) will be able to provide prescribers with an endorsement for a broad category of products. Prescribers will still need to then seek product-specific approval from the TGA.

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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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