Greece: Positive report from the Working Group for the Medical Use of Cannabis
6 March 2017
Diogenis
The report of the Working Group for the Medical Use of Cannabis delivered to the Health Minister, Mr. Xanthos, was published yesterday, Wednesday 22.02.2017. We are very pleased with this development, as in a recent letter Diogenis together with other Civil Society organizations requested official information regarding the progress of the Working Group’s tasks.
The Working Group for the Medical Use of Cannabis has been established by the decision of the Minister of Health on 18.07.2016 with the following main purposes:
- to assess the current experience
- to study the existing legislative framework and
- to formulate evidence based proposals concerning the regulatory framework and the necessary legislative changes to allow medical use of preparations containing cannabinoids
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