Queensland Numbered Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH (MEDICINAL CANNABIS) ACT 2016 - SECT 58

58 Approved pharmacists and secondary dispensers

(1) An approved pharmacist, working in the dispensing pharmacy for a medicinal cannabis approval, is authorised to obtain medicinal cannabis and possess the medicinal cannabis at the dispensing pharmacy if the approved pharmacist is possessing the medicinal cannabis for the purpose of—

(a) selling or supplying the medicinal cannabis to the patient; or

(b) selling or issuing the medicinal cannabis to a carer for the patient or another person authorised to obtain and possess the medicinal cannabis.

(2) The approved pharmacist, when at the dispensing pharmacy, is authorised to—

(a) do the following in accordance with a lawful direction for the medicinal cannabis—

(i) sell or supply the medicinal cannabis to the patient;

(ii) sell or issue the medicinal cannabis to a carer for the patient or another person authorised to obtain and possess the medicinal cannabis; and

(b) manufacture medicinal cannabis within the meaning of schedule 1, definition
"manufacture" , paragraph (a)(vi) to (viii).

(3) If the approved pharmacist is not at the dispensing pharmacy, the secondary dispenser under the dispensing approval is authorised to possess, sell, supply, issue and manufacture medicinal cannabis in accordance with subsections (1) and (2) when at the dispensing pharmacy.