People with a prescription will be able to pick up medicinal cannabis from a pharmacy under legislation introduced yesterday. The committee is also to give advice about how the prescribing process will work once the new medicinal cannabis scheme is running. University of Otago researcher Geoff Noller has hailed proposed new legislation as a ''watershed moment in New Zealand cannabis policy''. Dr Noller, who has a PhD on aspects of cannabis use, said the Bill was a move that ushered in the biggest change in New Zealand cannabis legislation in more than 50 years. Cannabis reform was ''complex'', but it had long been hard to have a rational national conversation about the clear therapeutic benefits of medicinal cannabis, including in chronic pain management.

Source: Otago Daily Times December 20, 2017 16:07 UTC