The Poles don’t want to go down the Australian path according to this Business of Cannabis report
The Polish government is set to introduce stricter controls on the prescription of medical cannabis, responding to concerns about its potential misuse.
These proposed changes aim to ensure that medical cannabis remains a treatment reserved for those with genuine medical needs, while addressing worries about the possibility of its recreational use under the guise of medical treatment.
Currently, patients in Poland can obtain medical cannabis prescriptions through online consultations, which has led to a sharp increase in the number of prescriptions.
According to local news reports from April, 2024, between 2020 and 2023, the number of prescriptions surged from 11,400 to 313,000, with 4.5 tonnes of medical cannabis prescribed in 2023, four times that of 2022.
This has driven concern among the Polish Ministry of Health that cannabis could be increasingly used for non-medical purposes, leading it to propose new regulations that would limit online prescriptions to ongoing treatments of up to three months and restrict the ability to prescribe controlled substances, including medical cannabis, to general practitioners only during these online consultations.
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