Medicinal cannabis (medical cannabis) is a cannabis product that is prescribed by a registered healthcare practitioner to relieve the symptoms of some medical conditions.

It comes from the cannabis plant and can also be called marijuana.

Medicinal cannabis is not considered a first line treatment, which means that your doctors will usually only prescribe it if other medicines do not work.

The cannabis plant contains a wide range of substances, including around 130 cannabinoids. Two main cannabinoids are:

• tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)
• cannabidiol (CBD)

THC has strong psychoactive effects. It is the chemical that gets people high. CBD is thought to have no intoxicating effects. It can treat a wide range of symptoms.

Medicinal cannabis is pharmaceutical-grade and regulated in Australia with labelled levels of THC and CBD. It often comes in oral or capsule forms.

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