Doctors and pharmacists have raised concerns about medicinal cannabis, alleging excessive and poorly regulated prescribing practices outside of "typical care pathways".

Largely unregulated prescribing and dispensing of medicinal cannabis around the nation needs to be tackled, influential industry groups the Australian Medical Association and Pharmacy Guild of Australia said in a joint letter to Health Minister Mark Butler.

"We are seeing a system that is being exploited — with prescriptions issued without proper clinical oversight and patients bypassing their regular GP and pharmacist," the guild's national president Trent Twomey said.

The number of Australians using medicinal cannabis has passed one million - a significant increase from 18,000 in 2019 - after regulatory changes expande

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