DA welcomes Department’s commitment to making medicinal cannabis more easily available to chronic pain sufferers
23 November 2016
Today at the Portfolio Committee on Health, the Department of Health outlined a clear plan that would see the greater availability of medicinal cannabis to those who suffer from chronic pain.
Medicinal cannabis, if appropriately prescribed, can be of great value in treating conditions such as severe chronic pain. Currently, the prescription of medicinal cannabis often has to go through a complicated bureaucratic process that requires a special permit from the DG of Health.
The proposed reforms in the regulations would empower the soon-to-be established South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) to license specific producers of cannabis, provided that strict conditions are met.