Nearly a year ago, Cayman Islands Customs and Border Control officers raided Doctors Express, located in George Town, seizing a quantity of legal cannabis products available to patients by prescription. Now, the medicine is back in Doctors Express offices, where registered physicians are able to continue the prescription and sale of cannabis oils and vapes to patients.
Doctors Express, in a press release, announced that the medical-grade cannabis products had been returned earlier in August 2020 after the office of Dr. John Lee, the Chief Medical Officer, rescinded the memo that led directly to the seizure of the medicines in the first place.
According to Doctors Express, patients who benefit from using cannabinoids experience relief from ailments that vary from chronic pain to Crohn’s disease to anxiety. Cannabis that is vaporisable enables patients to benefit from “ten times the bioavailability of ingestible cannabis oils.”
No further comment can be obtained from Doctors Express because they filed a judicial review last year, and the case is expected to be heard in court later this month.
No arrests were made during the September 2019 raid and no charges were made against the owners of Doctors Express. It remains unclear what specific aspect of the Misuse of Drugs Law was violated by Doctors Express last September.
