Remove medicinal cannabis from Special Access Scheme, doctors tell TGA

The letter was co-signed by AMA Queensland and the state branches of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia and RANZCP.
AMA Queensland president Dr Nick Yim.
Dr Nick Yim.

Queensland doctors and pharmacists want medicinal cannabis removed from the special access scheme, saying the pathway is being used to bypass TGA assessment.

AMA Queensland and the Pharmacy Guild of Australia’s Queensland branch both say the streamlined special access scheme B (SAS-B) pathway is enabling inappropriate medicinal cannabis use.