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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 Israel seeks to let general practitioners prescribe cannabis 🌿Israel seeks to let general practitioners prescribe cannabis
Move would ensure ‘dignity’ of patients, could be implemented within six months, health minister says
Israel could be just six months away from allowing general practitioners to prescribe cannabis, Health Minister Yaakov Litzman said Wednesday.
Litzman is leading a reform of the Health Ministry’s medical cannabis policy that seeks to devolve the authority to prescribe the drug from the ministry’s centralized medical cannabis unit to the nation’s 23,000 doctors, a move that would dramatically ease access to the drug.
“If the reform, which is expected to go into effect within a few weeks, moves ahead without problems, I’ll allow practicing doctors to give cannabis prescriptions to their patients in keeping with Health Ministry regulations,” Litzman, of the United Torah Judaism party, told a joint session of the Knesset Health Committee and the Knesset Committee on Controlled Substances Wednesday morning.
“Patients should be able to receive the cannabis in a dignified...
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