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The cannabis industry is booming following the Sharan Hashakel bill

Exclusive: MK Hashakel's law could remove pharmacists and manufacturers from the market, which is worth a billion shekels a year. Chairman of the Pharmacists' Association:

Basalt Pharma CEO: "It is not possible for us to invest money to comply with regulation and these have gone down the drain." The patient representative actually welcomes

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Friday, 08 October 2021, 13:19 Updated: 13:53

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Union of Pharmacists and plants medical marijuana are protesting the bill to medical marijuana by MK Ran mind, which is expected to be discussed in the Ministerial Committee on Sunday, and if he will eliminate the need for them.

The letter sent by the Union of Pharmacists Ministers of Health and Justice, Nitzan Horowitz and Gideon Sa'ar, it requires them withdraw or postpone the bill, noting that it has no medical justification on the one hand, and on the other hand it does not deal with the main problem with dealing treated with medical cannabis today - the price of products.

it was also noted in the letter that "the wording of the law confused, not coherent and leaning on the legal situation Existing. "All the experience gained in the two and a half years since the medical cannabis reform was implemented is not reflected in it, and the explanatory notes to it describe a situation that has passed from the world, while ignoring key issues that are pending and have not yet been resolved."

The Pharmacists' Union has a clear and overt interest: the bill eliminates the need to issue cannabis products in pharmacies, which impose a commission of up to 30% on every sale of a medical cannabis product.

But this proposal may also, at least in the eyes of pharmacists, lead drug manufacturers and marketers to sell directly to patients, not through pharmacies.

In a letter, the Histadrut stated that "the bill turns medical cannabis into a prescription preparation, in a manner that goes beyond any definition of any other preparation, stipulates that it will be issued according to a doctor's prescription, will be issued by a pharmacist, but not in a pharmacy." "Is it reasonable? Will each drug have a separate marketing system and separate dispensing points? There is no precedent for a situation in which a prescription product is issued outside a pharmacy."

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MK Sharan Hashakel. Her bill boils down to manufacturers and pharmacists. The patient representative actually welcomes (Photo: Reuven Castro)

"The offer is full of misunderstandings"

David Pepo, chairman of the Pharmacists' Union

, told Walla! Money: "I do not believe that such a law will pass the Ministry of Health, in order to get a vote in the Knesset plenum.

The proposal is full of a lack of understanding of the drug system in Israel and a lack of understanding of the field of medical cannabis and the full reform of the Ministry of Health, but the very fact that this proposal is up for discussion, whether rejected or not, is dangerous and opens a window to Politician on duty.

And we can not put up with that. "The

Pharmacists' Association also reminds the Minister of Health that the bill conflicts with the medical cannabis reform implemented by his ministry, and that led to the development of the HQR (Medical Cannabis Unit of the Ministry of Health). Millions of shekels, which will be in danger following the bill.

Chairman of the Pharmacists' Union, David Pepo. "The proposal opens a window to every populist whim" (Photo: Yachz)

"If you pass, then the High Court will accept"

The cannabis factories are also mentioned in the bill as a link that is not necessary in the arrival of medical cannabis to the end user, a reference that arouses their anger.

Meir Ariel, CEO of Basalt Pharma,

which owns the largest cannabis plant in Israel, told Walla! Money: Believes that this is not the case either. If you pass, then the High Court will accept.

It is not possible for us to invest money to adjust our activities according to the requirements of the regulator, just so that they go down the drain shortly afterwards when a new whim arises. "

Meir Ariel, CEO of Basalt Pharma, the largest manufacturer in Israel: (Photo: Thea Productions and Design)

Encourage pharmacies, forget about patients

Despite the criticism, which is understandable and even partially justified, for the medical cannabis patients the bill of the mind inspires a new breath of hope, after about 3 weeks ago High Court judges expressed support for the Ministry of Health's export outline and medical cannabis reform (against them patients).

Dana Bar-On, chairwoman of the Medical Cannabis Patients Association, hopes on behalf of the cannabis patients that the proposal will pass (Photo: courtesy of the photographers)

Dana Bar-On, chairwoman of the Medical Cannabis Patients Association,

told Walla! Money: Us without the only remedy for our suffering and contrary to the instructions of the High Court.

Apply a reform that turned the pharmacies, which were on the verge of sunset, into profitable business, and forgot who the drug was for. "

Medical cannabis patients hope that on Sunday, Health Minister Horowitz and all Israeli government ministers will do the right thing, morally and humanly, and vote in favor of the bill, which for the first time provides solutions to the plight of tens of thousands of critically ill patients in need of medical cannabis."

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