Medical Cannabis under Prescription APPG
First Registered: 18/07/2018 • Last updated on: 07/05/2025
The APPG exists to promote the importance of medical cannabis for patients in the UK. To raise awareness of the industry and the importance to growth of the economy and jobs within the sector. To work with other parties within government to raise awareness of this medication and the importance for patients, to help create an understanding of how this medication could sit within current medical frameworks.
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Reticulating Splines
APPG Supplied Content
APPGs can register with Parallel Parliament and submit files and articles to be placed here.
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Submitters can draft and edit publications, and either release them on demand, or schedule release for a future date.
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4 Current APPG Officers
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Beer , Commercial Sexual Exploitation , ITV , Modern Languages , Rugby Union Football Club
Obesity
Acquired Brain Injury , Chagos (British Indian Ocean Territory) , Palestine , Spinal Cord Injury
Contact Details
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Tonia Antoniazzi MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 0207 219 1199.
Email: tonia.antoniazzi.mp@parliament.uk
Secretariat:
The Medical Cannabis Clinicians Society and Volteface jointly act as the group's secretariat. https://www.ukmccs.org/ and https://volteface.me/
Benefits in Kind
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The Medical Cannabis Clinicians Society
Joint Secretariat From : 16/10/2024 To : 15/10/2025
£3,001
16 Oct 2024
Volteface
Joint Secretariat From : 16/10/2024 To : 15/10/2025
£3,001
28 Jan 2023
Tendo Consulting Limited
Secretariat From : 28/01/2023 To : 27/01/2024
£10,501
28 Jan 2022
Tendo Consulting Limited
Secretariat From : 28/01/2022 To : 27/01/2023
£10,501
28 Jan 2021
End Our Pain
Secretariat From : 28/01/2021 To : 27/01/2022
£10,501
28 Jan 2020
End Our Pain
Secretariat From : 28/01/2020 To : 27/01/2021
£10,501
27 Jun 2018
End Our Pain
Secretariat From : 27/06/2018 To : 26/06/2019
£10,501
No direct financial benefits are on record for the Medical Cannabis under Prescription APPG
Former APPG Officers
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Nickie Aiken
Co-Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Cities of London and Westminster
Joined: 5th April 2023Departed: 30th May 2024
Ronnie Cowan
Vice Chair
Scottish National Party - Former Member for Inverclyde
Joined: 18th July 2018Departed: 30th May 2024
Christine Jardine
Vice Chair
Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West
Joined: 21st April 2021Departed: 30th May 2024
Antisemitism , Choice at the End of Life , Grief Support and the Impact of Death on Society , Portugal , Switzerland and Liechtenstein
Lord Jackson of Peterborough
Vice Chair
Conservative - Life peer
Joined: 5th April 2023Departed: 6th March 2024
International Freedom of Religion or Belief
Alberto Costa
Co-Chair
Conservative - South Leicestershire
Joined: 21st April 2021Departed: 22nd February 2023
Lloyd Russell-Moyle
Vice Chair
Labour (Co-op) - Former Member for Brighton, Kemptown
Joined: 4th May 2022Departed: 22nd February 2023
Baroness Meacher
Vice Chair
Crossbench - Life peer
Joined: 24th February 2020Departed: 22nd February 2023
Emma Hardy
Vice Chair
Labour - Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice
Joined: 24th February 2020Departed: 10th March 2021
Stephanie Peacock
Vice Chair
Labour - Barnsley South
Joined: 24th February 2020Departed: 10th March 2021
Mike Penning
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Former Member for Hemel Hempstead
Joined: 18th July 2018Departed: 27th January 2021
Dan Poulter
Vice Chair
Labour - Former Member for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
Joined: 18th July 2018Departed: 23rd October 2019
Jim Shannon
Vice Chair
Democratic Unionist Party - Strangford
Joined: 18th July 2018Departed: 23rd October 2019
Lord Field of Birkenhead
Vice Chair
Crossbench - Life peer
Joined: 18th July 2018Departed: 23rd October 2019