Could the UK Finally See Medical Cannabis Legalised?
Hopeful news, if you're one of the estimated 1 million medicinal cannabis users in the UK: a group of MPs and peers is campaigning for medicinal weed to be made legal in the UK, allowing people who suffer from chronic pain and symptoms such as anxiety to grow a small amount of weed and have access to doctor-prescribed bud without the risk of being charged for possession.
If the campaign is successful, it would put the UK among 11 European countries and 24 US states where cannabis has been decriminalised for prescribed consumption.
The campaign was put forward this Tuesday after the All Party Parliamentary Group on Drug Policy Reform analysed evidence from 623 patients, medical professionals and legally-savvy people with knowledge of cannabis regulation in other countries, and reached the conclusion that weed can, indeed, be helpful and therapeutic in many ways – and is actually not...
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