Medicinal Cannabis is available at our pharmacy to dispense through your GP via the special access scheme (SAS). Conditions to dispensing do apply and to get approval a patient must go through an authorised prescriber who can apply to the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods (ARTG) on your behalf for us to dispense your medical cannabis medicine.
To date medicinal cannabis has been approved for patients who have the following indications:
- chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting
- refractory paediatric epilepsy
- palliative care indications
- cancer pain
- neuropathic pain
- spasticity from neurological conditions
- anorexia and wasting associated with chronic illness (such as cancer).