Carly Barton, Deputy Director at United Patients Alliance, is thought to have become the first UK patient to be prescribed…
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…
Alfie Dingley’s cannabis medicine prescription secured after Mike Barnes intervention
Alfie Dingley will continue to get access to cannabis medicine – after having his licence revoked – thanks to an…
Jersey leaves UK mainland trailing as GPs are permitted to prescribe medical cannabis from February 2019
Jersey is often portrayed as a culturally backwards throwback to the 1950s but it has left mainland UK behind when…
‘Law change is meaningless’ says mother of epileptic child denied cannabis medicine
Families of children with epilepsy say they have been denied prescriptions for medicinal cannabis despite the law change on 1…
‘There are no specialist doctors. They haven’t been trained.’
A mother from Bradford whose son could benefit from legal cannabis medicine does not believe the move to permit its…
Will Britain’s Medical Cannabis Policy Be Enough For Patients?
There has been huge fanfare over the medical cannabis announcement this week as it is a significant victory to see…
Sir Mike Penning: Time for specialists’ ‘disappointing’ attitude to cannabis medicine to change
Sir Mike Penning, the co-chairman of the cross-party parliamentary group on Medical Cannabis Under Prescription, has urged health specialists to…
Government permits doctors to prescribe ‘cannabis-derived’ medicine
The government has announced that doctors in the UK will be permitted to prescribe ‘cannabis-derived’ medicine. Home Secretary Sajid Javid…
I Teach Law At A UK University And This Is Why I Support Cannabis Reform
By Dr Melissa Bone ‘The power of the people is greater than the people in power’ – Wael Ghonim I…