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The first clinic that uses cannabis to treat its patients opened in a public hospital in Nakhon Ratchasima province last week. It will be led by one doctor and three accredited traditional medicine practitioners, while another 10 will be sent for training. An amendment in July had allowed traditional Thai doctors to prescribe cannabis for therapeutic use to their patients.
be treated with cannabis in the initial phase. The first concerns people suffering from diseases that can be alleviated by cannabis oil, such as muscle pain caused by multiple sclerosis, epilepsy that can no longer be treated by modern medicine, neuropathic pain and nausea caused by by chemotherapy for the treatment of cancer.
The other group concerns patients treated by traditional Thai medicine, such as those with chronic diseases causing certain symptoms such as sleep disorders, lack of appetite, acute chest pain, hoarseness, constipation, pain muscle and limb weakness in patients with stroke.
About a hundred people came for treatment in the first group, and 500 in the second.
"The treatment will be supervised by qualified doctors and practitioners," said Bhumjaithai Party leader and Minister of Public Health Anutin Charnvirakul. He further added that practitioners who prepare their own olive oil and coconut cannabis formulas could submit them for validation. If they are not harmful, they will be allowed for supervised use in clinics and hospitals across the country. Indeed, earlier this month, the Government Pharmaceutical Organization authorized the use of three formulas of cannabis oil. The Thai government then delivered 4,500 bottles of 5 ml of cannabis oil to the Ministry of Public Health, which was redistributed to health institutions.