Section 28C: Medicinal Cannabis Therapeutic Committee
This section is inserted by Act No 17 of 2022, section 7.
consolidated text (as at 2013, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
28C. Medicinal Cannabis Therapeutic Committee
(1) There shall be, in every regional hospital, a Medicinal
Cannabis Therapeutic Committee which shall determine, on a
request made by an authorised specialist, whether a patient needs
treatment with medicinal cannabis.
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(2) Every Medicinal Cannabis Therapeutic Committee
shall consist of –
(a) a Regional Health Director, as chairperson;
(b) 2 Government authorised specialists; and
(c) an authorised pharmacist.
(3) Every Medicinal Cannabis Therapeutic Committee
shall regulate its meetings in such manner as it thinks fit and may
co-opt such other person as it may determine.
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Questions this section answers
- Who decides whether a patient can be treated with medicinal cannabis?
- What is the Medicinal Cannabis Therapeutic Committee at the regional hospital?