Ireland moves one step closer to allowing doctors prescribe medicinal cannabis
3 April 2017
An expert panel of doctors will tomorrow begin to draw up guidelines on how medicinal cannabis can be prescribed in Ireland.
Describing it as “a pivotal step”, Health Minister Simon Harris said the expert reference group, chaired by Dr Mairín Ryan of the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA), would start drafting guidelines on how the drug can be dispensed.
Patients and clinicians will also have a say on the guidelines which are to become the main building blocks of the Cannabis Access Programme (CAP) which Harris announced at the start of the year.
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