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Psychiatrists fear medicinal cannabis adverse events are 'tip of the iceberg' (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 3 months ago by HalfEarthMedic@slrpnk.net to c/australia@aussie.zone
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The whole article is worth reading but this caught my eye.

The Australian Medicinal Cannabis Association (AMCA) said that without suspected adverse events being published and investigated it was hard to draw conclusions about the safety of medicinal cannabis products.

If the only organisation representing cannabis prescribers is unwilling to comment on safety what does that say about the state of the industry?

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[โ€“] Squiddork@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As a GP are you for legalisation (similar to alcohol) or for more tightly controlled prescriptions?

[โ€“] HalfEarthMedic@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 months ago

Whenever this is raised the argument about legalisation for recreational use is conflated. Alcohol, cocaine, oxycodone etc all have medicinal and recreational uses and we appropriately treat then differently.

If we are using it as medicine, at a minimum we should see prescription tracking and monitoring with implications for doctors prescribing inappropriately similar to the way we treat other medications with potential for abuse.

My opinion, for what it's worth is that there should be legalised cannabis for recreational purposes.

What we definitely shouldn't have is a situation where I am having people turning up to my clinic expecting a prescription for recreational doses of flower to smoke.