Despite more than 600 reports of "adverse events" for medicinal cannabis in the past three years, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) is yet to investigate the safety of most medicinal cannabis products. It has now launched a review.

The whole article is worth reading but this caught my eye.

The Australian Medicinal Cannabis Association (AMCA) said that without suspected adverse events being published and investigated it was hard to draw conclusions about the safety of medicinal cannabis products.

If the only organisation representing cannabis prescribers is unwilling to comment on safety what does that say about the state of the industry?

    • No1@aussie.zoneEnglish
      6·
      21 days ago

      In the movies, they always show the injured character take a huge swig of alcohol, and then splash it all over their fatal wound and that fixes everything, so it must be true!

    • Joshi@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      61·
      21 days ago

      I believe that ethanol infusion is still standard treatment for methanol poisoning but outside my expertise

      • SaneMartigan@aussie.zoneEnglish
        3·
        20 days ago

        Heavy alcoholics can’t safely quit drinking cold turkey, so may be prescribed a number of drinks a day while drying out.