Healthcare professionals

This section is intended for health professionals.

Who can prescribe, dispense and administer cannabis medicines depends on country-specific policy. Most often health professionals are the gatekeepers to patient medicine access. In particular, prescribers and pharmacists have an important role to play. In a prescriber-pharmacy model of care, patients are offered objective communication of risks and benefits of the therapy and the advantage of professional guidance.

However, many health professionals do not know how cannabis medicines should be prescribed, dispensed and administered. Below, you can find evidence-based information, specifically aimed at you as a healthcare professional.