In November 2018 the UK government made cannabis-based products for medicinal use legal.

 In November 2018 the UK government made cannabis-based medicinal products for specific conditions legal.

20 months on and doctors seem uninterested in prescribing them, say researchers.

The British Medical Journal (BMJ) want this to change.

Hundreds of thousands of UK patients are self-medicating with illegal cannabis-based products because medical and pharmacy professions are not prescribing the legal ones - few NHS prescriptions have been issued

It is estimated that 1.4 million medical cannabis users source their cannabis products from the black market, risking the Russian roulette gamble common with illegality - unknown quality, and where and how the cannabis was grown and processed

The Imperial College London, London School of Economics and Drug Science (formerly known as the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs), asks, why does the UK lag behind so many other countries that have legalized medical cannabis?

They found barriers to prescribing that need removing, and give access to legal medical cannabis products for eligible patients in the UK.

The government insistence that medical cannabis be considered a “special’ product, is the likely barrier to doctors prescribing.

It means the doctor is responsible for any harm caused by the medical cannabis product - responsibility is with the manufacturer for other medical products – Why the discrimination between legal medical products? - (Just surmising - the doctor then can't get insurance cover for cannabis medicine products? Is it a cunning plan? Is Baldrick behind it?) 

It means thousands of UK patients are self-medicating with non-regulated illegal cannabis products when international evidence show these products offer advanced legal treatment.

They can save the NHS money in reduced hospital admissions and reduce treatments with powerful chemical opioid drugs.

The British Medical Journal (BMJ) conclude: “The failure of the medical and pharmacy professions to prescribe legal cannabis products for medicinal use (CBPMs),after they were made ‘legal’ over 18 months ago, is a great concern, and may, they say, have led to preventable deaths from conditions such as epilepsy.

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BBC Video – About the parents going to Holland for the cannabis medicine for their epileptic child

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