The Medical Innovation Bill, tabled by the late Dr Mario Ambrosini recommends legislation for medical practitioners to prescribe cannabis, with respect to several life-threatening diseases such as cancer. The Bill proposes that, in keeping up with world standards, one or more research hospitals should be established where medical innovation can take place and ultimately effect change on the legalisation of medical, commercial and industrial use of cannabis. Reading between the lines, the Bill is more interested in ‘cannabinoid medication’ rather than whole plant cannabis medicine, thereby opening the door for pharmaceutical research and possible control of any future cannabis medicine industry in South Africa.

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