Freedom and Left submitted to the Hemp Act for Medical use in SD Critical

On the day when the marijuana march takes place, MEPs submitted a proposal that was supposed to regulate the cultivation, production, transport of marijuana for medical and scientific purposes. Use is at least possible on paper already, but its cultivation is not regulated or prohibited. Therefore, the first signed under the law, the Members of Freedom Sara Žibrat and the left Nataša Sukic, emphasized that it is by no means a more restrictive arrangement than the current one, which emphasizes the critics of the proposal – this can also be heard in the SD.

« We are firmly convinced that we will regulate the smooth access of patients who need cannabis preparations to relieve pain or treatment, » said Natasa Sukic, noting that patients were now forced to buy them on the black market.

Wholesale traffic could only be carried out by medicinal products or ingredients, and retail transport with cannabis for medical purposes only only pharmacist providers. It will be published on a green or white prescription at the discretion of the doctor. « The law will leave the medical profession to decide when and how much cannabis to prescribe, » MP Sara Žibrat stated, stating that, because it is medicines, it must be subject to strict conditions for cultivation. Holders of the permit for the first phase of production, ie for cultivation, will also be able to rent a subcontractor, but it will have to comply with the prescribed conditions.

As reported, instead of the public cannabis agency, which was initially envisaged, the permits will be granted under the current proposal by the Agency for Medicinal Products and Medical Devices. It will also be responsible for monitoring permission and production and an indicative annual cannabis for medical purposes for market transport.

All applications will also include the intended annual amounts of cannabis that the manufacturer wants to produce. However, excess or unused quantities will have to be destroyed by the holder of the permit within four months of their occurrence.

But in all of this, they see a problem in the SD, since the production of all the active ingredients, including non -psychoactive (such as CBD, CBG, CBL, CBL) would be left exclusively to 12 existing permits. « It is incomprehensible and unacceptable that the law would prohibit contractual production of healing cannabis to Slovenian farmers, including where it is a substantive substance of THC, » they say, stating that the law does not include two key and explicitly agreed changes: withdrawal of references to the hemp plant from the list of illicit drugs and the elimination of disproportionate medical penalties. The law also does not, according to them, solve the issue of accessibility and registration of medicines in Slovenia, which is the basis for the development of medical cannabis, they claim.

Coordination on cannabis production and possession for limited personal use is expected to begin next week.