The Health Ministry in Israel announced plans to expand who can prescribe medical marijuana and will temporarily allow family doctors to provide their patients with prescriptions for medical marijuana.

The ministry is trying to deal with the heavy load on pain clinics, the medical units that are allowed today to grant the prescriptions. The new regulations will allow family doctors to write the medical cannabis prescriptions under two conditions: when it is an extension of an existing treatment, and only keeping to an existing dosage.

There are some 18,000 permits for the use of medical marijuana in Israel today, and this number is expected to grow to some 40,000 by 2018. Demand for medical cannabis in Israel has been rising steadily, and the list of conditions and treatments for which it is authorized has also been growing over time. 

Source: haaretz via theweedblog


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  1. […] Family Doctors in Israel Allowed to Prescribe Marijuana […]

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  2. Lies. Officials of Israeli Health Ministery responded that they did’t not receive any update on it. Lies, thousands of people can not get the lisence. Weed is very high and rare comodity in Israel. 18 000 permissions for population of 8 million? 120 new shekel per gram. Israeli Ministery of Health is taken over by corrupted doctor professional unions.These doctors and scientists are all Death Eaters, using Harry Potters vocabulary. I am of the “refusnics”… Good day for everybody.

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