It could be an early Christmas for cannabis growers and researchers.
In a little over a week, the Government will lay out its model for how it intends to regulate the medicinal cannabis market.
It will be the first time medicines will be allowed to bypass the usual fail-safes and go direct to market without clinical proof of safety or measures of effectiveness.
The Ministry of Health’s medicinal cannabis scheme is aimed at creating a regulated, affordable market, and will provide the initial blueprint for licensing, cultivation, manufacturing and product formulations, as well as a prescription and enforcement regime.
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