Definitive Legal Advice On Medicinal Cannabis In The UK

Ever since CLEAR adopted its new aims and objectives in 2011, our campaign for access to medicinal cannabis has been our principal focus. Early on we identified the possibility of mounting a legal challenge to current policy and through a tortuous and convoluted route, we have finally arrived at a conclusion.

Cannabis is a class B drug, providing a penalty of up to five years in prison and a unlimited fine for simple possession. It is also in schedule 1 so it has 'no medicinal value' according to the UK government, a position that is obviously contradicted by the approval of Sativex. There is no doubt that the Home Secretary's re-scheduling of Sativex in schedule 4 was dishonest. It was probably also unlawful. Unfortunately, any legal challenge is now out of time, would have been hugely expensive and could also have

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