Medical

Five crime commissioners are backing a bid to let seriously ill people grow their own cannabis without fear of arrest. They are calling for a change in the law to allow some patients with grave health conditions to legally cultivate the…

When medical cannabis was legalised in the UK in November 2018, British patients desperate for legal access thought their long wait was finally over. However, patients like James Walker, who suffers severe epilepsy, are still waiting for…

Despite medical cannabis now being legal on the NHS, a limited number of prescriptions have been granted since the law change and some parents are having to pay thousands for import licences and private prescriptions. An NHS England review…

Medical cannabis cannot be approved for use in children with severe epilepsy on the NHS because there is not enough evidence to prove it helps, a watchdog has ruled. The decision by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence…

Luxembourg is set to make history by becoming the first European country to end the prohibition of cannabis. The plan to legalise cannabis for recreational use was confirmed by Luxembourg’s Health Minister, Etienne Schneider. The new law,…

Campaigning for wider access to cannabis in the UK has a long and fruitful history. Beginning as a movement for general access to cannabis as a recreational drug before evolving (or devolving depending on your perspective) into a more…

A con­cert­ed cam­paign to un­lock the use of cannabis to treat se­vere child­hood epilep­sy prompt­ed the British au­thor­i­ties last year to sanc­tion its use in cer­tain pa­tients, when oth­er med­i­cines have failed, af­ter…

For years, Morocco has been the world’s leading producer and exporter of cannabis products. In fact, if you happened to visit in a coffee shop in Amsterdam or the Cannabis Club in Barcelona during the last few years, and enjoyed a sweet…

Australia legalised cannabis for medical use two years before the Conservative Government caved in to public pressure to legalise access to the medication in the UK. Despite this two-year head start, Australian patients are still struggling…

© Iarygin Andrii It’s the most socially disruptive phenomenon of the new millennium – medical cannabis is sweeping the planet and patient experience could possibly be improving. Progressive-minded nations all over the world are…