Israel's first academic medical cannabis training center opens in YeruhamPosted by On

Israel’s first medical cannabis research and training facility, the GreeNegev CannAcademy, opened last week in the relatively small and isolated southern local council of Yeruham, in the Negev desert.The center was opened in collaboration with the Sapir Academic College off-campus studies division, the Health Ministry’s Medical Cannabis Unit (MCU) and the Yeruham Local Council.According to the center, all 56 of the pharmacists who took part in the first four-day intensive course successfully completed their training and passed their final exams.During the course, pharmacists and other medical practitioners learned about cannabis regulation and its legal status, the mainstays of the medicalization reform and its objectives, quality control at all stages of the supply chain from growth, production, distribution, security measures, training, pharmacist questioning, the prescription process and contact with the patient.In addition, course participants were taught different topics regarding the science behind the cannabis plant: botany, pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, R&D principles, principles of proper use, the unique qualities of each of the various commercial preparations and methods of administration, how to tailor the best treatment for a patient, prevention of side effects and addiction, the export potential of Israel’s cannabis market and its plans for the…

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