Government will have a huge task ahead in facilitating the use and prescription of medicinal marijuana when it comes on stream, says one of the first doctors to have prescribed cannabanoids to pain sufferers in Barbados.
Dr Harley Moseley III has hailed Government’s recent move to add the range of chemicals to the Barbados Drug Formulary from next year, where they will earn the status as Schedule 1 drugs, similar to morphine.
But the physiatrist also has concerns about how it would police use of the range of drugs when made available to patients.
“The THC component of marijuana is known to impair judgement and coordination. If some of the working population is going to use medicinal cannabis, the Government is going to have to instil rules and regulations that determine the levels of THC which are safe for people to operate machinery, drive and work in environments where it is dangerous to be inebriated in any form,” he said in an recent with THE NATION. (BA)
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