Section 28D: Request for treatment with medicinal cannabis
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.
28D. Request for treatment with medicinal cannabis
(1) No person, other than an authorised specialist, shall
make a request to the Medicinal Cannabis Therapeutic Committee
for a patient to be treated with medicinal cannabis.
(2) Where an authorised specialist assesses that a patient
who suffers from specific therapeutic conditions requires treatment
with medicinal cannabis, he shall make a request, in such form
as may be prescribed, to the Medicinal Cannabis Therapeutic
Committee of the regional hospital which is nearest to the place
of residence of the patient.
(3) Notwithstanding this section, no authorised specialist
shall make a request for himself to be treated with medicinal
cannabis.
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- How do I get medicinal cannabis prescribed for my condition?
- Can my doctor ask for me to be treated with medical cannabis?