“In the coming weeks the calls for the cultivation of medical cannabis for medical use by public and private companies will be ready”. This was announced by Undersecretary of Health Andrea Costa on the broadcast ‘Mi manda Rai3’. “We are launching tenders that give the possibility of cultivating cannabis for medical use also to private and public companies to be able to achieve the goal of being self-sufficient in production. This – he said – is an issue that we are working together with the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of the Interior, we are well advanced along the way “.
In pharmacies throughout Italy “there is a strong shortage of medical cannabis for the preparation of cannabis-based magisterial drugs: the supply is not sufficient and pharmacies have great difficulty with respect to the exponentially increasing demand for these drugs by patients. We are unable to meet the requests. “The national secretary of Federfarma Roberto Tobia explains this to ANSA.” The shortage is chronic. In addition, although reimbursement by the NHS is foreseen, in various Regions the preparations are not reimbursed and the cost for patients can even reach over 500 euros per month “.
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