Authorities have delayed a program to authorize doctors to prescribe cannabis describing it as “low priority” during the Pandemic.
Health Minister David Ashford has said that the plan is still “on the agenda” but pushed because of the Pandemic.
Ashford said that there were “greater priorities” than introducing new cannabis legislation to the island. Ashford also cited reticence of GPs to prescribe the drug was also an issue.
Critics have suggested that this program should go ahead on schedule anyway and indeed have cited the model followed on the island of Jersey where a small number of general practitioners who operate out of clinics, can prescribe.
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