Zelensky signs law on legalization of medical cannabis
Kyiv • UNN
President Zelenskiy signs a bill to legalize medical cannabis, which will come into effect in six months.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed a bill on the legalization of medical cannabis, which will come into force in six months. This is stated in the card of the bill No. 7457, UNN reports.
Details
According to the bill's card, on February 13, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed the law, which was passed by the Verkhovna Rada on December 21 and signed by the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk on January 17.
Today, on February 15, the law was published in the parliamentary newspaper Golos Ukrainy, which means that it will come into force tomorrow and will be implemented in 6 months, i.e. on August 16.
Addendum
The draft law regulates the circulation of cannabis only for medical, industrial and scientific purposes. Medical cannabis-based products will be available only with an electronic prescription. This prescription will be issued by a doctor according to the patient's condition, as is currently the case with morphine.
Recall
After the bill was passed, the next day a group of MPs from the Batkivshchyna faction, led by Yulia Tymoshenko, introduced a draft resolution blocking the bill's signing. In the resolution, the MPs emphasized that the draft law was adopted in violation of the Verkhovna Rada's regulations.
Already on January 16, the Verkhovna Rada unblocked the signing of the medical cannabis law by failing to vote on the draft resolution that blocked its signing.
