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.
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.
“It is our view that current controls are inadequate, including the TGA’s standards for regulating medicinal cannabis products and their THC concentrations,” they told the TGA in a letter co-signed by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists’ (RANZCP) Queensland branch.
The three groups want medicinal cannabis regulated “in the same manner as all other drugs of dependence”.
