Glossary

Pharmaceutical cannabis

Pharmaceutical cannabis is an interchangeable term for medical cannabis, and refers to the consumption of the plant as a medicine.

Pharmaceutical cannabis, or medical cannabis, is used to treat a number of health conditions including chronic pain, anxiety and epilepsy around the world. Pharmaceutical cannabis can be prescribed in dried flower form, or can undergo a process of extraction so that the chemical compounds contained within the plant can be used as ingredients in cannabis-based products for medicinal use in humans (CBPM). 

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