Healthy Beast
Healthy Beast
Richard Holt
Why are doctors still refusing to prescribe cannabis?
41 minutes Posted Jun 4, 2021 at 6:00 am.
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Medical cannabis is technically legal in the UK, but that does not mean you can get it. For thousands of children with epilepsy, this can be a matter of life and death. For millions more, cannabis represents a far healthier alternative to medicines like opioids. Today I am joined by Professor Mike Barnes, who secured the first NHS prescription for cannabis in 2018, and Ricardo Geada, a lawyer specialising in the field. We talk about what is stopping cannabis prescriptions, and why there is cause for hope.