The Spanish socialist party PSOE launches a proposal to legalize medical cannabis on prescription

The Spanish PSOE’s cannabis proposal will be open until June 10 for other parties to make their contributions. Before that, this Thursday, it will be put on the table at the last meeting of the subcommittee, in which the pro-legalization associations participate.

The PSOE’s proposal to legalize therapeutic cannabis in Spain would only legalize drugs prepared in hospital pharmacies, for “indirect” consumption (never in the form of buds, but in standardized preparations or magistral formulas), prescribed by a doctor working in the public health system and only available to a list of consumers to be established by each autonomous community, as reported by 20minutos.

Once all the opinions have been gathered, on June 23, the Spanish cannabis proposal will be put to the vote of the Congressional Health Committee. The ultimate goal is for it to arrive as a bill in the lower house after the summer.

Thus, according to the document on the Spanish proposal on cannabis, the Socialists base their initiative on five main points:

• Guarantee the availability of medicinal products derived from cannabis;
• Give an essential role to the Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS);
• The public service and hospitals (not community pharmacies) as implementing arms;
• Avoid “greater availability of cannabis outside the clinical setting”;
• Evaluate the program “annually” to adjust for any changes.

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