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Medical cannabis campaigner Rose Renton says news cannabis spray is to be considered for public funding is "exciting".
Pharmac, the agency responsible for deciding which medicines get subsidised, plans to discuss the Sativex spray with its primary clinical advisory committee, the New Zealand Herald reported.
In April Nelson teen Alex Renton was hospitalised for seizures. His family campaigned for him to be given medicinal cannabis and in June he was prescribed Elixinol, a cannabidiol. Alex died on July 1 in Wellington Hospital.
When the oil was approved for use in June, Alex was the first person in New Zealand to receive the cannabidiol in hospital.
His mother, Rose said Pharmac was making an "exiting small step forward" in looking at the spray.
"It paves a way forward for approving cannabis for others."
She said if the spray was needed then the plant was too.
"It is positive and heading in...
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