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Cannabis: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help ensure police officers are trained to deal appropriately with people who rely on prescribed medical cannabis.

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
4 Oct 2024
Target answer date
8 Oct 2024
Answer
14 Oct 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 4 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help ensure police officers are trained to deal appropriately with people who rely on prescribed medical cannabis.

  2. 8 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 14 Oct 2024

    Answer published

    The Home Office published Circular 018/2018 when Cannabis-Based Products for Medicinal Use (CBPMs) were introduced under Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 on 1 November 2018. The circular summarised the effects of the legislation, and is ...

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