A dad from Ayr in Scotland who grew cannabis to treat his teenage son’s cancer has been fined £1,000 in…
This Week In Weed – 24 February 2018
Cannabis poses ‘long-term risk’ to alcohol industry The legal cannabis industry “could emerge to become one of the biggest threats…
May dodges NHS cannabis medicine prescriptions scandal at PMQs
Theresa May refused to take any responsibility for the scandal around cannabis medicine prescriptions at Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday.…
Paul Flynn, MP who campaigned for medical cannabis, dies aged 84
Paul Flynn, who once challenged MPs to smoke cannabis in parliament as an act of civil disobedience, died on Monday…
Wide-ranging study: punitive cannabis policies do not deter young people
A wide-ranging study has found that there is no evidence that punitive policies deter young people from using cannabis. In…
UK cannabis medicine trial limited to 150 prescriptions
A small number of patients are to be given cannabis medicine prescriptions as part of a UK trial to test…
How Mail, Sun and co misled public over ‘teenage cannabis depression link’
A study which tentatively links teenage use of cannabis use to later depression in adulthood “cannot prove that cannabis use…
This Week In Weed – 17 February 2018
UK receives first bulk import of cannabis medicine The UK received its first bulk import of medical cannabis this week.…
Alzheimer’s Research UK announces ‘cannabis-based’ Sativex trial for dementia
The UK’s leading dementia research charity Alzheimer’s Research UK has announced it will fund a “pioneering” clinical trial at King’s…
The British Medical Cannabis Debate circa 2019
How do we work around the problem of adhering to some of the most strict medical guidelines in the world…