Article (paywall) Medicinal cannabis system exploited, say Guild, AMA

I can only give you this and then you have to be a member to read the rest

Pharmacists and doctors have teamed up to implore the health minister to act on the largely unregulated rise in medicinal cannabis prescribing and dispensing Only weeks after the Pharmacy Board issued new guidance on dispensing the medication, the Pharmacy Guild of Australia and Australian Medical Association have written to health minister Mark Butler urging him…

https://ajp.com.au/news/medicinal-cannabis-system-exploited-say-guild-ama/

 

I highlighted this because i’ve noted a bit of change in tack in Australian job ads over the past month. Medical Cannabis companies appear to be advertising less Dr prescribing positions and more “pharmacist” positions. I’m yet to get to the bottom of what the strategy is with regard to current prescribing rules but the uptick as our favourite American president would say, is, tremendous. These all turned up in the last week on my seek job search with cannabis in the title