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Still No Medical Cannabis Trials For NHS – Five Years On From Legalization

By administrator December 4, 2023 1 min read

Medical cannabis was legalised in the UK in 2018, but still it isn’t available on the NHS. It means legalisation has made little difference to patients who can’t afford a private prescription.

Five years after medical cannabis was legalised, the government still hasn’t funded clinical trials that could see it being used on the NHS, Sky News has been told.

The Home Office reclassified the drug in 2018 to allow specialist doctors to prescribe the drug under tight controls.

– Read the entire article at Sky News.

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