Going Dutch: a Profile of Arno Hazekamp, Chief Scientist at Bedrocan

The United Kingdom is starting to talk about cannabis as a medicine.

End Our Pain, a campaign to give patients legal access to medicinal cannabis, launched earlier this month.

This new movement, that coincides with the start of a medicinal cannabis storyline on Coronation Street, has already generated considerable media attention.

Even though a handful of countries, most notably the Czech Republic and the Netherlands, allow patients access to medicinal cannabis, only one company licensed to grow cannabis for medicinal use exists in Europe: Bedrocan, tucked away in the far north of the Netherlands.

Earlier this month, we went to Amsterdam to meet Arno Hazekamp, molecular biologist, plant biochemist and chief scientist at Bedrocan. Over coffee at Schiphol Airport, we spoke about the complex world of pharmaceutical cannabis with the man who is, arguably, one of the world’s foremost authorities on the subject....

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