Medicinal cannabis use is booming, with more than 1 million people prescribed the drug since it was legalised in 2016.
prescriptions are for the treatment of chronic pain, followed by anxiety, sleep disorders and cancer painTGA figures show there have been a total of 1.17 million Australian patients treated with the drug – through either authorised prescribers or a special access scheme – since it was legalised.
visited Liam, who was non-verbal and rarely communicated his feelings, he greeted us with an enthusiastic, “Hi sister!” GPs need to get each patient treatment approved through the TGA, but some have “authorised prescriber status” and don’t need approval for every patient. Statistics on medicinal cannabis use are collated in a number of ways.
“It’s not cheap,” Sloan said. “It would be nice to see the government supporting medicinal cannabis more.”