France’s government launched a two-year nationwide experiment with medical cannabis Friday with a view to its eventual legalization.
Some 3,000 patients around the country will be given medical cannabis treatments and their health will be monitored by the national medicines watchdog, the Health Ministry said in a statement. The first prescription was issued Friday at the Clermont-Ferrand University Hospital in southern France.
The goal is to gather data about the effectiveness and safety of therapeutic cannabis, and to prepare eventual logistical circuits for future distribution, the ministry said.
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