Following the legalization of medical marijuana in Ukraine earlier this year, a lawmaker said this week that the first registered cannabis medicines could become available as soon as next month.
"Everything is in place for patients to receive medical cannabis products today, except for the medical cannabis itself," Olga Stefanishyna, a member of the Ukraine parliament's Committee on Public Health, Medical Assistance and Medical Insurance, said at a press conference in Kyiv, according to local reports. "Because, aside from the regulatory system, someone needs to register these medicines in Ukraine."
"Currently, as far as I know, the first registration of medicinal product is already in process," Stefanishyna said. "We are very optimistic that in January we will be able to prescribe real medical cannabis based medicines."
The comments, reported by the Odessa Journal and the Ukrainian National News, come after President Volodymyr Zelensky signed the medical cannabis legislation into law in February. The legal change officially took effect this past summer, but so far no products have become available as officials work to get infrastructure around the medicines up and running.
Read more at Marijuana Moment