Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has considered permitting individuals holding a valid prescription for a cannabis-based product for medicinal use to apply for a licence to cultivate cannabis for their own prescribed use.

Cannabis-based products for medicinal use may be lawfully possessed where they have been prescribed by an appropriately qualified clinician. However, a prescription does not authorise the cultivation of cannabis.

Cannabis may only be cultivated under a Home Office licence. The Government has no plans to change the existing licensing arrangements to permit individuals to cultivate cannabis for their own prescribed use. Licences for the cultivation of high-THC cannabis may be issued for lawful purposes, including the production of pharmaceutical products, subject to compliance with the relevant medicines regulatory requirements.