There should be no issue.”
While others are said to be using cannabis for medicinal
purposes throughout the UK, this is the first time a doctor
has written a prescription for the drug since it was
rescheduled on November 1 last year. That’s according
to campaign group End Our Pain, which Robin says has
been the family’s “biggest support.”
The movement is currently asking members of the public
to sign a petition online to, “support the call to change
the law to allow doctors to prescribe cannabis where they
consider it would help their patients; and for patients to
have their prescription honoured at the pharmacy.”
At the time this issue was published, more than 45,000
people had signed the petition.
Via its website, End Our Pain says that despite the recent
changes in the law, the limitations to patients who may be
in need of medical cannabis are too restrictive:
“Following the historic change in the law, the NHS has put
guidelines out for the prescription of medical cannabis
in conjunction with recommendations from the Royal
College of Physicians (RCP) and the British Paediatric
Neurology Association (BPNA) that are so restrictive that
hardly anyone will be able to get a prescription.
Many thousands of patients feel bitterly disappointed. We
don’t believe this is what the Home Secretary had in mind
when he made the bold decision to re-schedule medical
cannabis so that it could be prescribed following the high-
profile campaigns of Alfie Dingley and others. This is an
outrageous situation.”
Vapouround CBD contacted the Department of Health
for comment but did not receive a response by the
time of publication.
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