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France: Senator Gilbert-Luc Devinaz of the Socialist, Ecologist and Republican group has introduced a bill to regulate recreational cannabis and cannabis-derived products as a state monopoly. Under the proposal, the National Agency for the Control and Management of Cannabis would be responsible for issuing licences for production and distribution. The bill also seeks to impose excise duty on cannabis products and prohibit advertising. Several senators from the same group, led by Devinaz, released a collective statement in August 2022 through the newspaper Le Monde, calling for the legalisation of recreational cannabis.
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4th April 2023
France: The National Drug Safety Agency (ANSM) is warning of a possible shortage of CBD-only medicines in its medical cannabis pilot programme and suggests alternatives, such as Epidyolex and preparations that contain THC, for patients already in the programme. The anticipated shortage follows the withdrawal from the programme of Little Green Pharma, which provides approximately 60% of the products prescribed, press reports.
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