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Cannabis: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of awareness amongst police constabularies of the legislation around the use of prescribed medical cannabis.

answeredHome Office

About this written question

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
8 Jan 2025
Target answer date
13 Jan 2025
Answer
17 Jan 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 8 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of awareness amongst police constabularies of the legislation around the use of prescribed medical cannabis.

  2. 13 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 17 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    CBPMs were placed in Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 (“the 2001 Regulations’”) in 2018. This means that specialist clinicians can prescribe CBPMs where they deem it clinically appropriate and in the best interests of their patients, and...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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