Professor David Nutt is to lead a two-year trial involving up to 20,000 UK patients in a bid to create…
This Week In Weed – 7 July
MPs: government raised prescription expectations unfairly A report by the Parliamentary Health and Social Care Committee has said that the…
This Week In Weed – 15 April
Hancock returns confiscated medicine to Teagan Appleby Health Secretary Matt Hancock has agreed to return cannabis medicine to Teagan Appleby,…
Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies complains cannabis medicine has ‘opened Pandora’s box’
Dame Sally Davies, England’s Chief Medical Officer, yesterday made the outrageous claim that “we know [THC] has an impact on…
Baroness Blackwood claims patients are not being denied cannabis medicine
On the 4th of March in the House of Lords Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford made the bold claim that…
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…
NHS pain specialists put up notices telling patients not to bother asking for medical cannabis
NHS pain specialists are putting up notices in their clinics telling patients not to bother asking for medical cannabis. The…
Chronically ill Jazi Allen denied cannabis medicine because she ‘does not fit the criteria’
Chronically ill Jazi Allen has been told that she cannot be prescribed cannabis medicine because she “does not fit the…
MPs slam NHS as Jorja Emerson finally obtains private cannabis prescription
The all-party parliamentary group for medical cannabis has condemned the workings of the new cannabis medicine licensing regime after the…