British Home Secretary Sajid Javid announced on Thursday that British doctors will soon be able to prescribe marijuana derived medicines for patients ‘with an exceptional clinical need’. The decision comes after a review by a panel which pointed to specific cases. The matter will be presided over by the health and regulatory agencies who will determine what cannabis derived products constitute medicines, which would be prescribed by a competent physician.
UPI reports
British doctors will be able to prescribe marijuana plant-derived medicine to patients beginning this fall, British Home Secretary Sajid Javid announced Thursday.
Specialist clinicians will be able to prescribe cannabis-derived products to patients “with an exceptional clinical need,” Javid said.
The decision follows high-profile cases where families of children with severe epilepsy had difficulty accessing cannabis oil to ease the condition.
Javid said “recent cases involving sick children made it clear to me that our position on cannabis-related medicinal products was not satisfactory.”
This prompted him to establish a review last month. In the review, which consisted of a panel of two sets of independent advisers, he said he decided to make certain cannabis-derived products available.
Javid said health and regulatory agencies will determine what constitutes cannabis-derived medicinal products, and they will be prescribed.
Britain, in a sense, is joining several other nations which are recognizing the medicinal utility of cannabis or which have recognized that the policing policy surrounding the substance doesn’t add up. Recently, Canada legalized marijuana even for recreation use, within certain limits, and over the past few days, news has broken that the Eurasian nation of Georgia is doing likewise. Meanwhile, in some places even in the United States of America, cannabis is legal in one way or another.
The post Britian set to legalize medical marijuana appeared first on The Duran.