The pharmacists want to distribute pot for medicinal

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Jean Thiffault, president of the Association québécoise des pharmaciens propriétaires

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On Tuesday 16 January 2018 17:16

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On Tuesday 16 January 2018 17:18

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The pharmacies want to take care of the distribution of cannabis for therapeutic purposes.

“We consider that it is up to the network of community pharmacies in Quebec to proceed with the distribution of “medical marijuana,” said Tuesday Jean Thiffault, president of the Association québécoise des pharmaciens propriétaires.

The association, which was in his memory during the discussion on the draft law of the government Couillard surrounding the legalization of cannabis, demand in Québec city to put pressure on Ottawa in this sense.

“We must at all costs avoid that patients cannabis users go to directly supply to the points of sale of cannabis for non-therapeutic, in and out of the professional supervision they currently receive,” one can read in the document.

The organization reports that hundreds of thousands of Canadians obtain illegally cannabis for health reasons, a proof that the current system does not work. He believes that patients will turn to the québec Society of cannabis when the drug will be legalized, with no follow-up by a health care professional.

The AQPP points out that among all the governments that allow medical cannabis, such as Italy, Germany, Australia, only Canada, and Puerto Rico ” does not integrate pharmacists to their process of distribution “.