UK: Fight for medicinal cannabis reaches the Lords
Some believe cannabis could be useful in treating a range of medical and psychological problems
Yesterday, Baroness Molly Meacher asked a question about cannabis in the House of Lords. The question was whether cannabis could be re-scheduled out of schedule one - which determines that it has no medicinal value - to schedule two or three, which would allow doctors to prescribe it and researchers to use it more easily in studies and clinical trials.
The government behaved exactly as expected. The most generous interpretation is that its spokesman, Lord Bates, was misinformed. His first response to Lady Meacher's question was to parrot the Home Office's usual line on cannabis about it being a harmful drug etc etc.
A video of the eight minute debate is available here. A full transcript is here.
This, of course, is nothing to do with medicinal use. Most medicines are far...
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