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Medical 🇧🇪 Belgium

Belgium permits prescription Sativex

Index score

2425

+1 point

A royal decree created the narrow legal route for THC medicines. Sativex may be prescribed by an experienced specialist for multiple-sclerosis spasticity and dispensed by a pharmacy.[1]

Score by segment 0 to 10

  1. Possession · 25%3 3
  2. Personal cultivation · 25%2 2
  3. Punishment & enforcement · 20%4 4
  4. Sharing & gifting · 10%1 1
  5. Consumption · 10%2 2
  6. Legal access · 10%0 1+1

The bar shows the score after the change; the tick marks where it stood before. The scores after the change are Belgium's current scores.

References

  1. Belgian medicines agency (FAGG) — Questions about medicinal cannabisarchived

Checked. The date and the event were compared with a source that was read. The score before the change is an editorial estimate.

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