Here's the takeaway points from the UPA meeting with the HO.
The interim expert panel who have been put in place to screen applications currently will be disbanded this winter and clinical specialists will be able to apply for import licenses for their patients.
The official NICE guidelines will be prepared for release this time next year relating to three conditions/symptoms: Chemo Nausea, chronic pain and treatment resistant epilepsy.
Eventually prescriptions will be allowed for floral products and by GPs as well as specialists.
Smoking won't be recognised as medicine but vaping and oils taken orally will be.
The medical necessity legal defence may be reinstated for cannabis and police will be asked to deprioritize cannabis, however these changes are going to be phased in over the next couple of years so it's not going to be an overnight change.
The interim expert panel who have been put in place to screen applications currently will be disbanded this winter and clinical specialists will be able to apply for import licenses for their patients.
The official NICE guidelines will be prepared for release this time next year relating to three conditions/symptoms: Chemo Nausea, chronic pain and treatment resistant epilepsy.
Eventually prescriptions will be allowed for floral products and by GPs as well as specialists.
Smoking won't be recognised as medicine but vaping and oils taken orally will be.
The medical necessity legal defence may be reinstated for cannabis and police will be asked to deprioritize cannabis, however these changes are going to be phased in over the next couple of years so it's not going to be an overnight change.