Looks Like We Are Going To Be Up To Our Mince Pies In The F B W D.

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/time-to-review-medicinal-cannabis-laws-government-11409704

[Mamyalynne]

Good news, it is wrong that those most in need to control pain etc have been forced into becoming lawbreakers.

[ludwig]

I can't see any reason why cannabis derivatives shouldn't be used for medicinal purposes.

[jim360]

What's Barnier got to do with it, danny?

Also, since Medicinal Cannabis just helped save a boy's life, a review into *that* is welcome.

[jackthehat]

If it eases the very real life-threatening sysmptoms suffered by a small number of people.......why on earth not?

No GP is going to be prescribing 'Camberwell Carrots'.

[dannyk13]

Sorry Jim, posted on wrong thread.

[jim360]

Yeah, realised that after I looked at the other thread. Happens to all of us once!

[ToraToraTora]

use for medical purposes bu all means but they seem to be trying to force it through generally.

[jackthehat]

From your own link....

///Sajid Javid has declared it is "time to review" the medicinal status of cannabis, but promised it is "not a first step" to legalising the drug for recreational use.///

[ludwig]

That won't happen ttt, but a review for medicinal use is long overdue.

[youngmafbog]

What I dont get is that if there is some medicinal value why cannot the good ingredient be isolated and become a pill or whatever?

Also have trials been done to prove the value and maybe side effects?

Having said that I personally thing it should be fully legalised, taxed and controlled. As I have said on here many times.

And no I dont use it and never have but why should I stop choice?

[douglas9401]

Eee, it's a funny old world:

https://inews.co.uk/news/health/uk-biggest-exporter-heroin-cocaine-legal-use/

[jim360]

The good ingredient *is* cannabis, hence the problem.

The research into its efficacy, however, is limited. Ironically, that's because it's cannabis, and therefore illegal in many countries.

Bit of a Catch-22 situation, really.

[rockyracoon]

I think perhaps the pharma companies are not too keen on spending research money on the value of cannabis.

[youngmafbog]

But heroine is illegal but we have licenced growers of it in the UK.

So I dont see the problem.

[youngmafbog]

I see that argument time and time again, but if the Pharma companies isolated it into a tablet then it could be licensed and used (and make a huge profit). I do wonder if the reality is that the medical benefits are difficult to prove.

[Theland]

I would like to see it legalised for general use.
Long overdue.

[youngmafbog]

That would be the easiest solution TheLand.

The 'war' has been lost - as has been said on here in the past.

[rowanwitch]

No reason why it couldn't be treated like any other controlled drug. Either in oil form or tablets containing the active components. We use "heroin" medically and have done for years. There are plenty of arthritis sufferers who have to take the risks to obtain it, or suffer because they can't. MS patients seem to benefit, and some cancer pain seems to respond, no need to legalise any other use but medicinal

[mushroom25]

i've read somewhere on the internet that the company licenced to sell medicinal cannabis in britain is owned by Theresa may's husband. is that true, does anyone know? bloody cynical of her if it is.