Medical use
Growing, selling and importing medical cannabis is allowed on
the condition that the authorisation of the Ministry of Health is
obtained. Cultivation, sale and import are currently mainly managed
by the state through internal production, import from the
Netherlands or public tenders for the supply.
Authorisation by the Ministry of Health is mandatory. Such
authorisation is personal and cannot be sold or transferred.
Moreover, it can be granted only to institutions or companies whose
owner or legal representative, if they are companies, is of good
behaviour and offers moral and professional guarantees.
Cannabis-based medicines which are already authorised in Italy
can be prescribed to patients by physicians using a special form
approved by the Ministry of Health. If the medicinal product is not
authorised in Italy but duly authorised in a foreign country, the
Italian doctor is required to send a request to the Ministry of
Health and to the competent
