Marijuana Business Magazine August 2019

August 2019 | mjbizdaily.com 27 cannabis, make health claims and could be sold without practitioner oversight. Health Canada would leave it up to provinces and territories to determine where CHPs could be sold within their borders. New products wouldn’t be available until 2020 at the earliest. That means CHPs for human and veterinary uses could be sold at pharmacies or pet stores under certain conditions, provided they are in line with federal requirements. Online sales also would be allowed. Switzerland Aims to Join Neighbors in Legalizing Medical Marijuana Switzerland is looking to give physicians the ability to prescribe cannabis-based medicines, which would significantly boost access and, if approved, create one of Europe’s newest regulated markets. A proposed legal amendment would put the cultivation, processing, manufacture and sale of medical marijuana under the regulatory wing of the Swiss Agency for Therapeutic Products (Swissmedic). The change would allow physicians to prescribe cannabis-based treatments directly to patients. To achieve this, authorities plan “to lift the ban on the circulation of medical cannabis” under the current narcotics law. Swiss patients are currently forced to go through a cumbersome process to access medical cannabis that involves applying to the Federal Office of Public Health for an exemption to the law prohibiting medical marijuana. © 2019 Marijuana Business Daily, a division of Anne Holland Ventures ; this information is current as of July 15, 2019.