Question follow-through · 67242

Veterans: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of treating post traumatic stress disorder in veterans with (a) medical cannabis and (b) MDMA assisted therapy.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
11 Jul 2025
Target answer date
15 Jul 2025
Answer
18 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 11 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of treating post traumatic stress disorder in veterans with (a) medical cannabis and (b) MDMA assisted therapy.

  2. 15 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 18 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    We recognise that the use of cannabis-based medicines and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapies, such as MDMA to treat mental illness, is gaining attention both within the medical and scientific communities as well as within the public more broadly. The li...

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