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Australia: Medicinal Cannabis Guidelines Could Deter Doctors Prescribing Drug, AMA Warns

Submitted by Marijuana News on Wed, 01/25/2017 - 09:00

QUEENSLAND doctors will be warned not to prescribe the strongest forms of medicinal cannabis to anyone under 25 years of age, in new guidelines to be sent out across the state.

The Queensland Health guidelines recommend doctors do not prescribe any medicinal cannabis products containing tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) – the main psychoactive ingredient of cannabis – to children or young adults due to a belief they are more harmful than other forms of the drug.

The guidelines – due to come into effect in March – also caution doctors that they will bear full responsibility for any medicinal cannabis they prescribe to patients.

They also repeatedly state that medicinal cannabis products are untested and their safety and efficacy are unknown.

The Australian Medical Association Queensland says the guidelines will leave doctors “very much out on a limb’’ and make doctors reluctant to prescribe.

AMAQ president Chris Zappala said he believed the...

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