Medical Cannabis in Israel to Become More Accessible
100 more doctors to be authorized to issue licenses and prescriptions to patients in need.
In a move that should make medical marijuana more easily accessible to patients, the Health Ministry plans to train and authorize 100 additional physicians to dispense prescriptions and licenses, nearly triple the number that are currently authorized to do this. Some 23,000 Israelis have permits to use medical marijuana and it is thought that many thousands more might benefit from it. However, today there are only 36 physicians authorized to issue such permits — 18 belong to the ministry’s medical cannabis unit, while the others are oncologists at various hospitals across the country. Unless one is a cancer patient, receiving a permit is a long drawn out process.
The training of more physicians — which is set to being after the holidays in the fall — is expected to help patients in two ways. First,...
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