02 Nov Medical Cannabis now legal in the UK – Submission
As of November 1st, cannabis can now be prescribed on the NHS, the treatments will only be prescribed in limiting numbers of circumstances by very specialist doctors only when other medicines have failed in working.
These circumstances mainly include multiple sclerosis and children with severe epilepsy along with patients with extreme nausea who are going through radiotherapy.
In practice professionals are to say treatments include pills, capsules and oils but will not intake smoking cannabis. The ratios and amounts of THC (compound that makes you high) and CBD compounds are going to vary among all treatments.
Last month Canada became the second country to legalise recreational cannabis decriminalising the drug all together as medical cannabis has been legal there since 2001 and they have delivered information to 15m households make them aware of this change.
The main reasoning to the law change in the UK is the remarkable stories of two little boys Alfie Dingley and Billy Caldwell, 13 both being diagnosed with extreme epilepsy. Alfie made a request to be supplied with cannabis oil where the Home Office denied the licence request. Billy’s mother Charlotte had cannabis oil brought back from Canada confiscated at Heathrow Airport, their circumstance prompted MPs to look at the ‘bizarre and cruel’ regulations on medical cannabis.
Since then the boys have both been granted special licences to access and use these treatments. Sajid Javid announced in June that there would be review on medical cannabis which conducted evidence to prove that cannabis has therapeutic benefits as long as it meets safety standards.
Does this mean the UK is on its way to decriminalising cannabis all together, with more dispensaries being available all over the world including Barcelona, Amsterdam, selected USA states, Australia and Canada what’s the next sep for the UK?
Thomas Bloomfield, a cannabis supplier and co-founder Abdretti OG exposed what it’s like working in an industry which is so involved in the historical movement of legalising cannabis, “supplying high grade cannabis and medical cannabis products is so new and unknown to the average person that they have no idea what cannabis can actually do, using it both recreationally and medically it has so many helpful factors that no one is educated about because it’s been so illegal and regarded for so long.” Abdretti OG is only being supplied to dispensaries in Canada, California, Amsterdam and Barcelona under the dispensary branch ‘The Plug’. “I call The Plug the European weed movement as it became such a hit in Barcelona and the Underground London branch is just about to be flames. The more legalisation there is the more experts will follow therefore causing everyone to question the war of cannabis” says Bloomfield.
The legalisation of medical cannabis could very well be the start of the decimalisation of weed the plant altogether as more and more underground dispensaries appearing copying patterns from other countries and more experts questioning over the benefits of using the drug both medical and recreationally.
