Parliament’s Health and Social Care Committee has asked for written submissions as the first part of a wider inquiry into the impact of drugs policy on public health, and is seeking
The all-party parliamentary group for medical cannabis has condemned the workings of the new cannabis medicine licensing regime after the family of Jorja Emerson finally got their hands on her
The latest statistics in prosecutions for cannabis possession have revealed the extent of the ‘postcode lottery’ cannabis users face with regards to the policing of prohibition. The Sunday Mirror obtained
Prohibition kills: Coventry man shot dead in police raid Police have shot dead a man in Coventry after raiding a “suspected cannabis farm”. Sean Fitzgerald, 31, was killed at an
The lead author of a study which found that THC potency in cannabis has doubled across Europe says regulation is the alternative if governments want to take control of the
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital has blocked one of its neurologists from prescribing cannabis medicine to a nine-year-old boy who suffers up to 300 seizures a day. Joanne Griffiths fears her
Canopy Growth launches UK subsidiary Canopy Growth, the world’s largest cannabis company, is launching a new UK subsidiary in a challenge to the hitherto monopoly of GW Pharma. Spectrum Biomedical
US legalises hemp farming It is now legal to grow hemp in the US after President Donald Trump signed the 2018 Farm Bill – as long as it contains no
Charlotte Caldwell has been forced to take her son Billy to Canada to seek medication after doctors cited strict NHS guidance to say they could not prescribe cannabis unless there
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has published an “interim guide” for GPs advising them on how to handle enquiries from patients about cannabis medicine. Only specialists, not GPs,
