💊 Medical · 16 November 1992 · Philippines

The Philippines creates a compassionate-access permit

A health-department order created a case-specific permit for specialised institutions and medical societies to obtain unregistered medicines for terminally or seriously ill patients. This general scheme later became the only route cited for importing a cannabis-based medicine.

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Sources:

• Supreme Court E-Library — DOH Administrative Order No. 4, series of 1992
• Wikipedia — Cannabis in the Philippines

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