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New Zealand: Medicinal Cannabis Costs Set to Tumble After Cheaper Product Gets Green Light

Submitted by Marijuana News on Tue, 10/18/2016 - 08:37

The cost of medicinal cannabis is set to tumble after Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne approved a Canadian pain relief product.

It is estimated the marijuana-based tincture called Tilray will cost at least 50 per cent less than the existing legal product Sativex, a UK mouth spray made by GW Pharma.

Multiple sclerosis sufferer, Dr Huhana Hickey, who applied to use Tilray, said: "I'm so relieved. It's going to save me $700 a month."

The AUT academic says she has spent $9000 on prescriptions since she started taking medicinal cannabis in February. Hickey says the results have been remarkable.

"I'm living my life again. I'm back to work, I am fully-functioning"

She started using the spray to replace pain killers such as morphine, codeine, tramadol and other opiates which she had been prescribed for years.

"At the start I was sceptical I didn't think it was going to work that...

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