Cannabis: Medical Treatments
(asked on 6th November 2017) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which companies she has licensed to investigate the use of medical cannabis as a medicine.
This question was answered on 14th November 2017
No licences have been granted to companies to investigate the use of medicinal or ‘herbal’ cannabis in its raw form and nor has the Home Office commissioned any reports into medical cannabis.
The World Health Organisation’s Expert Committee on Drug Dependence has committed to reviewing the scheduling of cannabis under the UN’s 1961 Convention. This is due to consider the therapeutic use as well as dependence and the potential to abuse constituent parts of cannabis.