Australian doctors lack knowledge about medical cannabis, a leading epilepsy group has said, as it launches a new tool to educate those with the condition about how marijuana could help in their treatment. While medical cannabis is legal for use in Australia, not all doctors are willing to prescribe it, and many products are not approved. Those who want to access it have complained about red tape, complicated access schemes, and doctors who simply do not know enough about the process to prescribe the medication. Now, a new cannabis-focused website has launched to give epilepsy patients information about what the drug does, how to access it, and how it could help them. Sydney University’s Lambert Initiative for Cannabinoid Therapeutics said medical cannabis is “much more complicated” to access than most other medicines, and most doctors don’t feel confident to prescribe it. Photo: Getty A 2018 study from the Lambert […]