Doctors can prescribe medical cannabis from November in UK

[Northerner]

Doctors will be able to prescribe cannabis products to patients from 1 November, the Home Secretary Sajid Javid says.

The new regulations apply to England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Mr Javid decided to relax the rules on when cannabis products could be given to patients after a review into medicinal cannabis earlier this year.

This followed an outcry over Alfie Dingley and Billy Caldwell being denied access to cannabis oil.

The parents of the two young epilepsy sufferers said the product helped to control their seizures.

Alfie's mother, Hannah Deacon, welcomed the move, saying: "We urge the medical world to get behind these reforms so they can help the tens of thousands of people who are in urgent need of help.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45822629

 

[mikeyB]

At last, common sense. The big change is the move to schedule 2, so at last we can get clinical trials to assess the benefits formally rather than anecdotally.

 

[Hepato-pancreato]

Long time coming. Wasn’t Drs allowed to prescribe cannabis years ago ? Think it was stopped in the seventies.
Sure Mikey will know .

 

[mikeyB]

That’s not years ago, that when I started University

Yes, it was 1971 when cannabis was forbidden to be prescribed for medical conditions. It was a casualty of the dangerous drugs act.

In terms of cannabis being illegal generally, that dates from 1928 in the UK.