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NZ: Expert okay's over counter cannabis

Radio New Zealand, Online

Thursday 27 May 2004

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A Dutch expert says providing cannabis through pharmacies for medical use
does not lead to increased recreational use.

In New Zealand, a select committee recommended last year that the drug be
provided to patients for a range of complaints from chronic pain to MS and
cancer sufferers.

Officials are currently awaiting the results of a clinical trial in Britain.

Willhelm Scholten the head of the Office of Medicinal Cannabis at the
Ministry of Health in the Netherlands, told Radio New Zealand making the
drug available through pharmacies wouldn't have an impact on recreational use.

Scholten says medicinal cannabis use should be no different from the use of
other narcotic drugs for pain relief, such as morphine.

 

 

 

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