Traditional prescribing is derived from a thorough history, examination, relevant investigations and evidence-based selection of the appropriate pharmaceutical if needed.

The recent AHPRA crackdown on medicinal cannabis prescribing paints a picture not so much of the traditional way of prescribing but of a process more along the lines of letting a kid loose in a candy store.

Medicinal cannabis was sold on the back of a three-year-old girl who experienced intractable seizures and a young man suffering horrific side-effects from chemotherapy as he battled cancer.

Two very distinct situations that actually hold evidence for the prescribing of medicinal cannabis.