What's gone wrong with cannabis prescribing?

Health regulators are concerned it’s too easy for people to get their hands on medicinal cannabis.

Regulators are concerned practitioners are putting profits over patient safety, with some writing more than 100 scripts a day.

What does the evidence say about what medicinal cannabis is effective for, and some of the risks associated with using it?

Guest/s

• Professor Michael Farrell, director of the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at the University of New South Wales

References

• Medicinal cannabis prescribing practices under scrutiny after scripts issued 'every 4 minutes' - ABC News
• ‘Infuriating and dangerous’: Psychiatrist tries and fails to speak with his patients’ medicinal cannabis prescribers - AusDoc.