NT doctors 'haven't yet embraced cannabis', says health expert

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The first Territory patient to ever fill a script for medical cannabis in the NT has now been approved.

"In the Territory, there's two ways that a doctor can go about [prescribing medical cannabis] and one is using the Government's special access scheme and the other is if they become an authorised prescriber, and that's applying and having that approved," Ms Ireland said.Ms Ireland said there weren't many authorised prescribers in the NT.

Ms Ireland said she would like to see government-funded training on cannabinoids made available for both doctors and patients in the NT. Mr Keitaanpaa said very few people actually attended the sessions and was unsure if running government-funded information sessions would attract more participants.

 

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Cause they are old, new generation doctors arissseeeee!!!

I have a feeling they might be still, ah, in the, testing phase. I’m sure they’ll get back to us after the effects have worn off...

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