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UK: 'Medical' use of cannabis is backed

James Landale

The Times

Friday 23 Mar 2001

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PEOPLE who break the law by using cannabis to relieve medical conditions
such as multiple sclerosis should not be prosecuted, a House of Lords
committee said yesterday.
The peers also accused the Home Office of 'inhibiting; research into
medical use of the drug and voiced concern at the slow progress of two
publicly-funded trials.

The Science and Technology Committee said: 'We consider . . . the acquittal
of cannabis users by juries on compassionate grounds brings the law into
disrepute.

'In the absence of a viable alternative medicine, moreover, and though we
would not encourage smoking of cannabis, we consider it undesirable to
prosecute genuine therapeutic users of cannabis who possess or grow
cannabis for their own use. This unsatisfactory situation underlines the
need to legalise cannabis preparations for therapeutic use.'

 

 

 

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