Medical Use of Cannabis in Africa: The Pharmacists’ Perspective

Cannabis is indigenous to many African countries. Despite this, the legalization of cannabis for industrial, medical, and economic purposes is not uniform. However, there is a growing interest in cannabis use for medical purposes in Africa. Pharmacists are best equipped to provide clinical advice an...

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Autores principales: Adebisi, Yusuff Adebayo, Quazeem Olaoye, Damilola
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9598981/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36304681
http://dx.doi.org/10.24926/iip.v13i1.4430
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description Cannabis is indigenous to many African countries. Despite this, the legalization of cannabis for industrial, medical, and economic purposes is not uniform. However, there is a growing interest in cannabis use for medical purposes in Africa. Pharmacists are best equipped to provide clinical advice and oversight in the safe management, production, and dispensing of medical cannabis on the continent. In this article, we share our perception as pharmacists regarding the medical use of cannabis and the possible roles of pharmacists in maximizing its use in Africa.
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spelling pubmed-95989812022-10-26 Medical Use of Cannabis in Africa: The Pharmacists’ Perspective Adebisi, Yusuff Adebayo Quazeem Olaoye, Damilola Innov Pharm Original Research Cannabis is indigenous to many African countries. Despite this, the legalization of cannabis for industrial, medical, and economic purposes is not uniform. However, there is a growing interest in cannabis use for medical purposes in Africa. Pharmacists are best equipped to provide clinical advice and oversight in the safe management, production, and dispensing of medical cannabis on the continent. In this article, we share our perception as pharmacists regarding the medical use of cannabis and the possible roles of pharmacists in maximizing its use in Africa. University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing 2022-04-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9598981/ /pubmed/36304681 http://dx.doi.org/10.24926/iip.v13i1.4430 Text en © Individual authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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