The Ministry of Health also recommended several amendments included providing a legal defence for the terminally ill to possess cannabis; setting regulations to prescribe standards for all stages of cultivation, production, and manufacture of cannabis; to allow the Director-General of Health to communicate information about the availability of medicinal cannabis products; maintaining a prohibition on tetrahydrocannabinols capable of inducing a psychoactive effect on individuals, and allowing CBD products to contain some non-psychoactive cannabinoids that are naturally found in cannabis. The Labour Party expressed support for the bill as a means of decriminalizing medicinal cannabis. While the National Party supported making medicinal cannabis more easily accessible, it expressed concerns about the wording of the bill and the manufacture, distribution, and eligibility of medicinal cannabis products.
