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‘Prioritising profit’: Australians regularly prescribed medicinal cannabis with very high THC levels

The Guardian Health Wednesday 29 July 2026, 00:26 UTC By Melissa Davey Medical editor 1 min read
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Exclusive: Of more than 1,000 medicinal cannabis products available, only two have been evaluated by the drugs regulatorGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastDoctors are commonly prescribing high-dose medicinal cannabis containing up to four times the concentration of THC tested in clinical trials, a review has found. Researchers from Monash University evaluated the available evidence for the efficacy and safety of higher THC potency medicinal cannabis products, in line...

Exclusive: Of more than 1,000 medicinal cannabis products available, only two have been evaluated by the drugs regulator

Doctors are commonly prescribing high-dose medicinal cannabis containing up to four times the concentration of THC tested in clinical trials, a review has found.

Researchers from Monash University evaluated the available evidence for the efficacy and safety of higher THC potency medicinal cannabis products, in line with those being prescribed in Australia. THC, or delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, is the main psychoactive ingredient of cannabis.

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