Quantum cannabis - How drug policy turned sci-fi
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As the case for drug prohibition has fallen apart, its defenders have had to come up with ever more imaginative ways to justify it. When it comes to cannabis, that now includes bending the laws of science to their will.
The government created a bit of a problem for itself when it allowed GW Pharmaceuticals to grow cannabis under license in order to produce Sativex - a cannabis tincture used to treat spasticity in multiple sclerosis patients. This was odd, because under the scheduling system for drugs enshrined in the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 cannabis is classified as schedule one, meaning it has no therapeutic value.
Before Sativex came along it was easy enough, despite the mountains of evidence to the contrary, for the government to defend cannabis' scheduling. There was no legal cannabis medicine in the UK, so therefore cannabis wasn't a medicine. But as soon...
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