Articles tagged with "United Kingdom"

A story in The Telegraph said Mayor Sadiq Khan’s plan would ‘effectively decriminalize’ weed. If only.

The United Kingdom loosened draconian import rules on medical cannabis products Monday, allowing licensed wholesalers to bring in much larger quantities of cannabis flower and oil, and at a greatly reduced cost. This promises the few patients with legal cannabis prescriptions in the country more reliable and affordable access to their preferred medicine. It also […]

“CBD products are widely available on the high street but are not properly authorized…”

Producers and researchers in the UK are setting the standards themselves as regulations lag.

In a landmark decision, the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) has approved two CBD drugs for the first time.

Britain’s largest religious organization announced this week that it will lift a longstanding prohibition on medical cannabis in order to explore investing in the fast-growing industry.

Carly Barton, 32, is officially the United Kingdom’s first medical marijuana patient. But access comes at a steep cost—and remains entirely theoretical.

Patients may still have to wait awhile for access, but it appears medical cannabis is finally coming to the UK.

Shamed into action by the suffering of an epileptic child whose only relief came from cannabis oil, law enforcement and health authorities in the United Kingdom will begin an “unprecedented” review of the country’s cannabis policy.

Observers say law enforcement’s confiscation of CBD oil used to treat a boy’s epilepsy could prove to be a tipping point for legalization.