‘I’m a healer, not a dealer!’: GP on her dark times working for a medicinal cannabis telehealth clinic
Dr Claire Noonan said she had limited information about patients' histories.
Revelations that AHPRA knows of eight doctors who have collectively written 80,000 scripts for category 5 THC medicinal cannabis once again raise the obvious question.
These doctors are operating as state-licensed recreational drug pushers, surely?
There has been a lot of public angst from regulators about the explosion in medicinal cannabis since the emergency summit they held more than a year ago to deal with the fallout.
But beyond the AHPRA notifications and the consequent risk to a doctor of being suspended, nothing much has yet been done to restrict the wider medicinal cannabis industry. Despite the noise, it seems business as usual.
