Cannabis in Australia 2023

Germany is finalising details of a strictly regulated legal cannabis framework to be introduced in 2024, and pilots of a regulated cannabis market are on the verge of being rolled out in selected cities in the Netherlands and Switzerland. [...] In Cannabis in Australia 2022, the key barriers we identified were product and medical consultation costs; a lack of education among healthcare professionals; and the unequal treatment of medicinal cannabis compared to other prescription drugs in Australia’s workplace and roadside drug testing regimes – all of which continue to curtail access in 2023. [...] The number of approvals for flower products for patients aged 18 to 44 has increased rapidly since the end of 2019, with the increase greater among men than women (Figure 3).5 The slowing of the increase (represented by the flattening of the curve) is likely due to the broader prescribing shift from the SAS-B pathway to the AP pathway. [...] CANNABIS IN AUSTRAL IA 202 3 The increasing use of medicinal cannabis in The prices of these products are not flower form is also apparent in industry data included in the TGA data. [...] The Regulation and court time and resources spent on of Personal Adult Use of Cannabis Bill 202350 enforcing minor cannabis offences.52 As of would also allow an adult who is lawfully in December, all bills remained under possession of cannabis to give the cannabis consideration in the chambers in which they to another adult as a gift.