Certain medical cannabis products are set to be legalised in the UK Peter MacDiarmid/REX/Shutterstock
Any government looking to regulate medical cannabis has to chart a careful course between implementing a system that it is too permissive, to the extent that it is simply a facade for non-medical use, and one that is too restrictive, resulting in a system that fails to provide for patients. In a policy shift that will legalise the sale of medical as of November, the UK government has chosen to steer far closer to the second option.
Cannabis not produced for medical use in humans remains…
