Pharmacists’ role in cannabis dispensing and counselling

We read with interest the article entitled “Pharmacists should counsel users of medical cannabis, but should they be dispensing it?” by Grootendorst and Ranjithan1 in this issue of the Canadian Pharmacists Journal. In this piece, the authors conclude that pharmacists are ideally situated to provide additional clinical oversight of patients taking cannabis for medical purposes but felt that certain logistical issues arising from the current community pharmacy business model could create obstacles to pharmacist dispensing. We applaud the authors for recognizing the integral role pharmacists play in medication stewardship and harm reduction and would like to take this opportunity to expand on some of the points they made and address some potential implementation challenges that were raised