Medicinal cannabis is big business. But the latest clampdown won’t curb unsafe prescribing
- Written by Carmen Lim, NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow, National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research, The University of Queensland

Australia’s key regulator of health professionals has announced it’s clamping down on unsafe prescribing of medicinal cannabis in the wake of surging patient demand.
The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, known as Ahpra, today warned health professionals they would need to put patients’...