Dr. Peadar O'Grady:

I think the Senator is mixing up two different things. The cannabis regulatory authority will consist of regulators. I am presuming some of them will have clinical and pharmacy experience and so on. Doctors who want to prescribe and recommend cannabis to their patients will just need to train in it and that training should be available here. This is a constant element of working in medicine. When we want to upgrade our skills we just get training. We read a book or journal or go to a lecture, course or conference.

We do whatever is necessary to acquire the level of knowledge and when we feel we have enough knowledge and we have conferred with our colleagues, we practise. That is how medicine works.