{"id":9405,"date":"2018-03-27T22:37:39","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T04:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=9405"},"modified":"2018-03-27T23:49:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T05:49:46","slug":"malta-legalises-prescription-of-medicinal-cannabis","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/malta-legalises-prescription-of-medicinal-cannabis\/","title":{"rendered":"Malta legalises\u00a0prescription of medicinal indian hemps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malta has on Tuesday legalised prescription of medicinal cannabis products by general practitioners.<\/p>\n<p>The new law means that patients would be able to access non-smoking forms of medicine at pharmacies with a doctor\u2019s prescription after a control card has been approved by the country\u2019s Superintendent of Public Health.<\/p>\n<p>Patients with the following three conditions are eligible to be prescribed with medicinal cannabis: chronic pain, spasticity in multiple sclerosis and side effects of chemotherapy.<\/p>\n<p>Malta\u2019s parliament started debate on the new medicinal cannabis law at the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The laws were relaxed in 2015, through legal amendments which allowed cannabis to be prescribed by specialists, under very strict conditions.<\/p>\n<p>That meant cannabis remained difficult to access by most patients.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the legalisation of prescription of medicinal cannabis, the Mediterranean island country is also in the process of regulating the manufacture of medicinal cannabis products, with five companies having already been issued licences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malta has on Tuesday legalised prescription of medicinal cannabis products by general practitioners. The new law means that patients would be able to access non-smoking forms of medicine at pharmacies with a doctor\u2019s prescription after a control card has been approved by the country\u2019s Superintendent of Public Health. Patients with the following three conditions are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[322],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Malta legalises\u00a0prescription of medicinal indian hemps<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Malta legalises\u00a0prescription of medicinal indian hemps\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/malta-legalises-prescription-of-medicinal-cannabis\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Malta legalises\u00a0prescription of medicinal indian hemps\" \/>\n<meta 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