Ukraine’s Ministry of Health has announced that the country’s medical cannabis program is officially operational, with the first prescribed products being purchased by a handful of patients on Thursday.
The THC capsules were dispensed at a pharmacy in the city of Vinnytsia to two veterans suffering from chronic neuropathic pain and phantom limb pain following amputation and a woman with multiple sclerosis.
Officials said that medical cannabis-based medicines are now available for purchase at six pharmacies belonging to a single licensed entity in Vinnytsia, Dnipro, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil, and Khmelnytskyi—with about 17 more pharmacies expected to launch sales soon.
The State Service of Ukraine on Medicines and Drugs Control said that “patients living with severe pain daily and requiring modern treatments now have an additional option to access modern pharmacotherapy.”
“The manufacture and dispensing of medical cannabis-based medicines may be carried out by business entities holding licenses for the production, wholesale and retail trade and import of medicinal products (except for active pharmaceutical ingredients), as well as a license for activities involving narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, and precursors,” the health ministry said. “In addition to the license, to compound such medicines in a pharmacy, business entities must also obtain a
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