After choosing not to include the generalization of medical cannabis in the Social Security Financing Bill, after having rejected all the amendments proposing generalization in Committee, the government finally proposed its amendment on medical cannabis, as announced clumsily by the Minister of Health on October 11.
As deciphered by the Union of Industrialists for the Valorization of Hemp Extracts (UIVEC) and by Santé France Cannabis, the amendment proposes the creation of a temporary ad hoc status for cannabis-based medicines, defined as “any medicine whose active substance is composed of a preparation based on Cannabis sativa L.
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