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Medical 🇮🇸 Iceland

Iceland confirms prescription access to Sativex

Index score

1617

+1 point

The Icelandic Medicines Agency confirmed that Sativex had a marketing authorisation and could be bought at a pharmacy on a prescription from a neurologist. It remains a narrow route for multiple-sclerosis spasticity rather than a herbal-cannabis programme.[1]

Score by segment 0 to 10

  1. Possession · 25%2 2
  2. Personal cultivation · 25%1 1
  3. Punishment & enforcement · 20%3 3
  4. Sharing & gifting · 10%1 1
  5. Consumption · 10%1 1
  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 Iceland's current scores.

References

  1. Icelandic Medicines Agency — Am I allowed to buy medicinal products containing cannabis?archived

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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