The health care experts are in favour of systematic regulation of the use of cannabinoids in medicinal purposes in order to curb expansion of black market sale of these products. The members of parliament are also in favour of the draft on the use of cannabis.

At the public presentation of opinions on the bill on cannabis, proposed by the citizen's initiative and supported by 11 thousand signatures, some members of the parliament claim to be in principle in favour of legalisation of cannabis. They also set out the regulatory trend, which is in other countries being directed towards legalisation of cannabis, and which would be, according to some members of parliament, a sensible direction for Slovenia as well.

The government is much less in favour of the proposed bill, considering that a law is not necessary, as an amendment of the regulation would be enough. The amendment would shift products made of cannabis, suitable for medicinal use, from the group of illegal drugs into a group of substances which can be legally used in medicinal purposes. The draft of bill on self-treatment, which would enable people to decide for themselves which medication and medical plants to use for self-treatment, and to grow any plant for this purpose, is considered redundant.
The professionals are unanimous: chaos should be eliminated
The medical professionals stress the urgency of regulation of the use of cannabis for medical purposes. "People need these medicines," warns the head of the Center for Treatment of Drug Addiction Andrej Kastelic, "therefore a step ahead should be made. It is bad that people are forced to commit criminal offences, and consequently doctors often don't know which medications their patients are actually taking, and whether complications could occur when combined with other medications."
The unsupervised taking is the reason for a rapid increase of hash oil poisoning noted by the UMC Ljubljana Poison Control Unit in the final quarter of the last year; none with long-lasting consequences or complications.
Patients in distress are victims of dealers
More tragic than poisonings are the stories of cancer patients. The belief that cannabis oil can even cure cancer is more and more widespread. Such stories are more and more frequent, warns the internal oncology specialist Maja Ebert Moltara, who in the Palliative Care Unit at the Institute of Oncology daily meets patients who, in one way or another, obtained products made of medicinal cannabis.
She estimates that more than one half of patients have already tried products made of medicinal cannabis. The problem however is the fact that the use of cannabinoids in medicinal purposes is not legally regulated, and consequently the patients are left to themselves and to the available products. Often they get them through dealers who exploit their distress and consider it an opportunity for quick profit.
Some doctors write white prescription forms which allow purchase of the products from medicinal cannabis in Austria, and some doctors try to avoid the problems caused by the legal disorder and avoid discussing that possibility with their patients.