Written Question·Home Office·UIN 22613

Cannabis: Medical Treatments

Tabled: 8 January 2025
Answered: 17 January 2025

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of awareness amongst police constabularies of the legislation around the use of prescribed medical cannabis.

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson
CBPMs were placed in Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 (“the 2001 Regulations’”) in 2018. This means that specialist clinicians can prescribe CBPMs where they deem it clinically appropriate and in the best interests of their patients, and...
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