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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Baroness Hamwee: 'It is time to legalise cannabis for medicinal purposes' 🌿Baroness Hamwee: 'It is time to legalise cannabis for medicinal purposes'
The Liberal Democrat spokesperson for Home Affairs, Baroness Hamwee, argues that the Government missed an opportunity to reclassify cannabis for medical purposes as part of the Psychoactive Substances Bill.
It’s quite usual for Bills to attract amendments which are wide of the Government’s intentions. In the Lords we have been dealing with the Psychoactive Substances Bill, which imposes a blanket ban on all “legal highs” (or attempts to do so – history does not show that prohibition works, rather that it pushes the market underground and towards sometimes more harmful substances), and the Liberal Democrats saw the Bill as an opportunity to raise the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes.
Medicinal herbal cannabis is very effective for many people (not all) suffering from some very severe and debilitating conditions, the spasms and cramps associated with multiple sclerosis and spinal cord damage, Parkinson’s Disease and some of the symptoms of cancer...
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