The Verkhovna Rada legalized medical cannabis.
A total of 248 MPs voted for the adoption of bill 7457 with the minimum required of 226, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
According to the document, circulation of varieties of plants of the hemp genus (Cannabis) for medical purposes, products of their processing and medicines produced (made) from them is allowed in scientific and scientific and technical activities, as well as in medical practice.
The bill provides that it will be possible to sell drugs containing narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances in pharmacies of all forms of ownership with a license, and the purchase of such drugs will be possible only with an electronic prescription of a doctor.
According to the document, activities on the development of new narcotics or psychotropic substances are carried out by scientific institutions of state, communal and private forms of ownership if they have a license from the government for this type of activity.
New narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances will be used in medical practice subject to their state registration and clinical trials conducted in accordance with the legislation on medicinal products.
It is provided that the procedure for accounting and control of the use of cannabis, narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors in scientific and scientific and technical activities is determined by the central executive body, which ensures the formation of state policy in the sphere of circulation of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, their analogues and precursors, countermeasures their illegal circulation.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy supports the legalization of medical cannabis and the use of such drugs for all who need it.
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