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Barriers to prescribing cannabis‐based medicines
Author(s) -
Dowden Angela
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
prescriber
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.106
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1931-2253
pISSN - 0959-6682
DOI - 10.1002/psb.1774
Subject(s) - medicine , cannabis , schedule , government (linguistics) , meaning (existential) , alternative medicine , psychiatry , family medicine , traditional medicine , psychotherapist , management , psychology , linguistics , philosophy , pathology , economics
Last November, the government moved cannabis‐based medicinal products out of Schedule 1 into Schedule 2 of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations, meaning they can now legally be prescribed. However, conflicting advice from different authorities, sourcing difficulties and a lack of guidelines have meant that few patients have so far been able to access these medicines.