At the national level, medical cannabis patients can only access to your medicine at the pharmacy of the General Directorate of Medicines, Supplies and Drugs ( Digemid ) located in San Miguel. This would change in the coming weeks, as other establishments are preparing to put it up for sale.
A year and a half after the regulation of Law No. 30681, which regulates the medicinal and therapeutic use of cannabis and its derivatives, was approved, 14 drugstores obtained the license to commercialize medicinal cannabis, indicated the Digemid of Ministry of Health (Minsa) a Perú21 .
Universal and Vanttive pharmacies were the first in this group to get approval, reported Curt Schwarz, CEO of Anden Naturals, one of the first labs to be licensed to import the compound.
He said that, although there are licensed pharmacies, to sell the final product requires a masterful preparation made by a pharmaceutical chemist, just as Digemid does in its San Miguel location.
Given this, Luis Márquez, country manager of Khiron in Peru , announced that he will provide standardized extracts of medicinal cannabis to the Universal pharmacy to develop the magisterial formulas that are adapted to the needs of each patient.
"We are working on introducing our products in the coming weeks, so that they can be purchased safely and legally at the Universal Pharmacy, with a prescription ", he said.
Registered patients
Max Alzamora , consultant doctor of the NGO Gotas de Esperanza and president of the Peruvian Association of Cannabinoid Medicine , recalled that patients should be Registered in the National Registry of Medical Cannabis Patients of the Minsa.
In addition, the prescription must be prescribed by a registered and certified doctor. “There are two types of prescription, the simple prescription for CBD and the controlled prescription for THC” , he referred.
he explained that the latter cannot be prescribed yet as the compound sold in Peru is high in CBD, not THC. “As a doctor I have prescribed the oil to about 300 patients. 50% have done well, but the other 50% have not felt changes because they need more THC, "he said.