In South Africa, tetrahydrocannabinol change its status to a particularly dangerous psychotropic substance, which is limited to turnover
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Ministry of Health Leaders of South Africa (RSA) has published its decision on the transfer of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) from the category of "particularly dangerous psychotropic substances, prohibited circulation" in the category "Psychotropic substance, whose turnover is limited."
The explanatory note to the relevant government decree, which introduces this kind of change to the existing regulations stated that the transfer of THC from the first to the second table is due to "a significant breakthrough in the research related to the use of psychoactive hemp opportunities in the medical field." According to the information set out in one of the country's major newspapers stated that the "South African doctors having carried out basic research, made a breakthrough in the field of therapeutic use of THC in the treatment of a number of serious, including chronic diseases."
Government officials also focused on the South African public that since February 2017 legal entities will be able to obtain licenses to legally conduct this type of activity. It is to this period of time to be completed and published by the legal regulation of the market system is the use of psychoactive hemp in South Africa.
Ministry of Health proposed to suspend the act "On regulation of drugs and related substances" in the part relating to cannabis or its derivatives. That's according to a regulatory act use of cannabis and its derivatives in medicine until recently was strictly forbidden. Thus, in the legal act, preparing for adoption psychoactive hemp will not be seen as a dangerous drug, and as a remedy within the definition of control by government agencies whose turnover is strictly regulated in the country.
Enhancing regulatory settlement of issues related to the use of psychoactive cannabis in the medical field has begun after the submission of changes under the title "On the medical innovations". It is in this draft legal act proposed South Africans suffering from cancer and other incurable diseases to enable the use of alternative medicines and therapies, including the use of psychoactive cannabis for therapeutic purposes.
During the ongoing government representatives, experts and representatives of hemp conferences business briefings, lectures and other public events noted that hemp perfectly manifests itself in the course of therapy, a huge number of different diseases, as well as its small production cost compared with other types of drugs .
Comment of the Association "Ukrainian industrial hemp"
The experience of transferring THC to the table "Psychotropic substances, turnover of which is limited to" extremely useful for professionals in our country, because a similar process is actively lobbied profile growers association at the level of the responsible government agencies in Ukraine.
Information taken from the site http://tku.org.ua