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Dr Claire Noonan said she had limited information about patients’ histories.

Revelations that AHPRA knows of eight doctors who have collectively written 80,000 scripts for category 5 THC medicinal cannabis once again raise the obvious question…

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The ABC

Doctors, not dealers

Claire Noonan, a GP from Orange in NSW, was looking for more flexible work when she decided to sign up to be a medicinal cannabis prescriber with a telehealth company in late 2022.

There were red flags from the moment she got her contract. She wrote to the company saying she was concerned that pay was contingent on writing scripts.

“I didn’t think it was conducive to ethical medical practice,” Dr Noonan explained.

She negotiated for the contract to be changed and started doing telehealth consultations with patients around the country.

Her prescribing mantra was to start low and go slow, usually starting patients with cannabidiol or CBD, a cannabis compound that does not cause a high.

“Some patients expressed a strong preference for THC preparations and would try and convince me to prescribe those for them, which, yeah, I didn’t want to do on a first visit,” Dr Noonan said, adding that some patients also “seemed to have a careful script” for how to try and get certain medications.

She said on one occasion, after she declined a patient request for a THC prescription, she received a call from the telehealth company asking her to reconsider because the patient had complained.

“We had to have a discussion about how I wasn’t prepared to prescribe against my own clinical judgement.

Dr Noonan quit soon after.

She does not want to name the company, which did not respond to requests for comment from 7.30.

She said the CEO of the company was not a doctor and could not be blamed for wanting to run a profitable business.

While Dr Noonan says she sees a place for medicinal cannabis in health treatment, she is concerned other doctors, especially young graduates and those without specialist GP training, might be more easily pressured to make poor prescribing decisions.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-19/medicinal-cannabis-ahpra-prescription-boom/105295086