UK government finally concedes cannabis has a medicinal effect

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UK government finally concedes cannabis has a medicinal effect

Exclusive: The MHRA's assessment could 'provide ground-breaking results' in leading to reform over cannabis' medicinal use in the UK

 

 

The government’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has found that Cannabidiol (CBD) has a “restoring, correcting or modifying” effect on “physiological functions” when administered to humans, in a potential milestone in the campaign to legalise cannabis and bring about evidence-based laws regarding drugs.

 

The review of CBD, a cannabinoid accounting for up to 40% of the marijuana plant's extract that doesn't contain its psychoactive THC but is purported to retain the health benefits, came about following discussions with CBD vaporiser company MediPen.

 

The MHRA’s findings are not directly applicable to the government’s response to last year’s petition to legalise cannabis, but stand in stark contrast, with the petition having been batted away by the Home Office with the assessment that cannabis “can unquestionably cause harm to individuals and society”.

 

GW Pharmaceuticals has also just concluded a positive phase 3 clinical trial demonstrating the safety and efficacy of CBD.

 

“Since our inception we’ve worked hard to obtain our goal of breaking down the negative connotations surrounding Cannabis to lead to a reform in the law for medicinal use,” Jordan Owen, Managing Director of MediPen, told The Independent, “now this is finally becoming a reality, which will provide ground-breaking results,”

 

The company was moved to contact the MHRA after its legal team pointed out there was originally no regulatory status for CBD, allowing the industry in the UK to flourish without any premature intervention.

 

Source: www.independent.co.uk

 

 

 

 

[justanidea]

And the completely not suspicious move is that following GW's results they have now given notice to all those selling and producing cbd products in the UK to stop in 28 days.