Prescription cannabis for medicinal use became legally available in Greece for the first time on February 19 to complement the treatment of patients suffering from extremely challenging and painful conditions.
Such conditions include nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapy for cancer and AIDS/HIV, pain and spasticity in multiple sclerosis, persistent pain that does not respond to available treatments or where treatments are not well tolerated by patients, as well as for increasing the appetite of patients receiving palliative care, AMNA reports.
Doctors who have the right to prescribe pharmaceutical cannabis in Greece include anesthetists, neurologists, and pathologists specializing in cancer, infections, and rheumatism. Prescriptions can be repeated by other doctors for six months, but the treatment must then be re-evaluated by a specialist.
Plans to allow the sale of prescription cannabis in pharmacies were announced in 2022 before their eventual implementation almost two years later.
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