A multiple sclerosis (MS) patient who described cannabis extract drug Sativex as a “miracle drug” after a four-week trial has…
Dec 06
Dec 06
Jorja Emerson faces wait of ‘weeks or months’ for cannabis prescription because ‘no UK pharmacy holds a licence to sell it’
Robin Emerson has said that it will take “weeks or months” to get hold of the cannabis medicine prescribed to…
Dec 05
Two-year-old Jorja Emerson is first UK child to get cannabis prescription – for £1,000 a month
Two-year-old Jorja Emerson, who suffers with more than 30 epileptic seizures a day, has become the first child in the…
Dec 03
Carly Barton pays private specialist £2,500 to become first UK patient to be prescribed cannabis in ‘strategic move to test the system’
Carly Barton, Deputy Director at United Patients Alliance, is thought to have become the first UK patient to be prescribed…
Dec 01
This Week In Weed – 2 December 2018
‘Dr Pot’ acquitted in Oz A deregistered doctor in Australia charged with supplying sick children with cannabis oil has been…
Nov 29
South Korea legalises CBD medicine in breakthrough for east Asia
South Korea – said to have the most oppressive anti-cannabis laws in the world – has become the first east…
Nov 28
Thailand moves to legalise medical cannabis amid concerns Western monopolies will dominate
Thailand’s parliament has almost unanimously passed a bill to legalise medical cannabis, with only one member of the National Legislative…
Nov 28
Welsh Tory Darren Millar faces backlash after attacking PCC Arfon Jones for visiting cannabis clubs
Welsh Tory Darren Millar has faced a backlash after he attacked the Police Crime Commissioner of North Wales, Arfon Jones,…
Nov 27
The Exit Drug: Cannabis and the opioid crisis
By Barnaby de Hoedt Cannabis has long been stigmatised as a ‘gateway drug’ to ‘harder substances’. This has always been…
Nov 27
Labour MP Jeff Smith calls for end to the ‘national scandal’ of prohibition
Jeff Smith – Labour MP for Manchester Withington and Chair of the All-party Parliamentary Group for Drug Policy Reform, a…
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