Still no medical cannabis trials for NHS - five years on from legalisation

Five years after medical cannabis was legalised, the government still hasn't funded clinical trials that could see it being used on the NHS, Sky News has been told.

The Home Office reclassified the drug in 2018 to allow specialist doctors to prescribe the drug under tight controls.

But a year later the NHS watchdog NICE warned doctors that they shouldn't prescribe the drug to the eight million patients with chronic pain, because it said there weren't enough good quality clinical trials.

Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/still-no-medical-cannabis-trials-for-nhs-five-years-on-from-legalisation-13020499

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