Insomniacs dreaming of obtaining marijuana in a pharmacy without a prescription to help them sleep will have to keep waiting, as several clinical trials have failed to prove its effectiveness.
Australia has one of the fastest-growing medical cannabis markets in the world despite authorities approving almost zero cannabis medicines, except some primarily prescribed for pain.: if they can prove a low-dose cannabis drug works in a clinical trial, they can sell it over the counter at the nation’s 5000-plus pharmacies, opening a potentially enormous market.Credit:So far, none of those trials have met their primary success criteria.
“It’s certainly not as good as everyone expected it to be, it’s not a blockbuster,” said Professor Jennifer Martin, a cannabis researcher and chair of clinical pharmacology at the University of Newcastle. In 2020, drug regulator the Therapeutic Goods Administration announced it would allow low-dose CBD products to be sold over-the-counter providing the industry could prove they worked as medicines.There are currently only two medicinal cannabis products registered for use in Australia: Sativex for patients with multiple sclerosis, while Epidyolex is used for the management of Dravet and Lennox-Gastaut syndromes.
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