Question follow-through · 22264
Cannabis: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has considered permitting individuals holding a valid prescription for a cannabis-based product for medicinal use to apply for a licence to cultivate cannabis for their own pres
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 9 Sept 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has considered permitting individuals holding a valid prescription for a cannabis-based product for medicinal use to apply for a licence to cultivate cannabis for their own pres
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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9 Sept 2026
Answer published
Cannabis-based products for medicinal use may be lawfully possessed where they have been prescribed by an appropriately qualified clinician. However, a prescription does not authorise the cultivation of cannabis.Cannabis may only be cultivated under a Hom...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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