Netherlands - Cannabis to be prescribed for pain.

From Monday, Dutch people doctors will be able to prescribe medicinal ganja to patients. Soft-drug use is tolerated in the Netherlands, but for the past two assemblage the government's Article of furniture for Medicinal Bush (BMC) has been researching the belief of the drug on patients. Other countries, including the UK, are also considering allowing the sale of the drug in pharmacies. Medicinal ganja is intended as a pain fill-in for mansion and Aids patients, and for grouping miserableness from other illnesses, such as multiple sclerosis. In line with United Nations narcotics regulations, the BMC is monitoring the ontogenesis and deed of the drug. Five-gram packets The BMC has signed a written agreement with two marijuana growers to provision pharmacies. The drug will be sold in five-gram packets for around $50. Public-health insurers are to decide this week whether they will protective cover the costs. The use of soft drugs is illegal but tolerated in the Netherlands, and soft drug is openly sold in so-called burnt umber shops. In Mar this year, the system changed the opium law to allow doctors to prescribe the drug through pharmacists. The Netherlands is co-operating with other countries who are researching the use of medicinal soft drug, including Canada, the United States, Britain, Switzerland and Belgium.