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Is Cannabis Legal in the UK?

UK Cannabis Laws Explained – Cannabis legalization in UK. We explain the marijuana laws in the United Kingdom with Solicitors from Mackrell. What are the CBD laws compared to the marijuana laws in the UK? We discuss the UK medical cannabis legal framework.

Elliott Rolfe and Nick Earles from Mackrell.Solicitors join us to discuss cannabis in the UK. The UK does have a medical program but you’ll be surprised (or maybe not) to find out how many people are actually patients under the program. We also discuss the cannabis culture in the UK and find out where the term “skunk” comes from.

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0:55 – What is Mackrell.Solicitors?
5:25 – Is cannabis legal in the UK?
8:50 – Does the UK have flower?
12:30 – Cannabis prejudice in the UK
15:50 – What’s the history of cannabis in the UK?
16:50 – How popular is cannabis in the UK?
17:07 – What’s the cannabis culture like in the UK?
24:20 – What happens if you get caught with cannabis in the UK?
26:15 – How can you get a growers license in the UK?
29:08 – Does the UK have any cannabis movements currently?
33:30 – The stoner trope in the UK
35:58 – What’s the weed called in the UK?
39:10 – Why does cannabis smell like skunk?
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50 Comments

  1. GsxR600 l2 on February 18, 2022 at 11:13 pm

    Owe my life to this plant great video lads, knowledge is power 💯🇬🇧



  2. Davetherave on February 18, 2022 at 11:13 pm

    I can assure you there are plenty of people here in the UK who like weed lol 😉 Not so much in my parents generation, but very common amongst people of similar age to myself, or younger.



  3. Jon Read on February 18, 2022 at 11:14 pm

    I’ve managed to completely turn my life around; improve my physical and mental health and become a better person all because of cannabis. I would still be an obese alcoholic addicted to antidepressants and in a dead end job without this PLANT. it needs to be made legal and available.



  4. Pascoe Brock on February 18, 2022 at 11:14 pm

    cannabis it has helped me to break away from class A abuse now 7 years clean. So i am one of a lot of people i would love to get a medical script so i am not breaking the law and can medicate with out the fear of the police beating my door in for a few joints. I am 48 i work fulltime i dont drive my partner has just under gone cancer treatment i just feel that there is little help the goverment said 4 years ago about medical scripts but you have to go private at a cost of more than buying off the street so are the goverment earning off the blackmarket? as something is not right we all need to start going about this in a diffrent way if one person goes to court for weed you get 2oo houndred people to hassel the courts police ect to th e point where it would cost so much to police it thus more to the point dont the goverment work for the people so we need more names to overturn laws ect Time for change. I got nicked for 7 grams 6 months 2007



  5. TheGreatWezzlar on February 18, 2022 at 11:15 pm

    I honestly struggle to find anyone here in Scotland that doesn’t smoke or doesn’t know somebody who does it’s pretty common now



  6. Sam Cottle's Wind Tunnel on February 18, 2022 at 11:17 pm

    22:50 That’s actually not true, medical cannabis has a long history in Europe and has been used since at least the time of the Ancient Greeks. It was among the most popular pharmaceuticals sold in the UK during the 19th century and there’s evidence to suggest that Shakespeare smoked cannabis from pipes discovered in his back garden at Stratford Upon Avon.



  7. Bertie on February 18, 2022 at 11:21 pm

    As usual, the British Government will over-regulate and tax our burgeoning cannabis market to make it totally impossible for our investors; then sell off the licenses to foreign businesses whilst pocketing back-handers.

    What me sceptical?



  8. Andre on February 18, 2022 at 11:22 pm

    is it legal to grow?



  9. Jim clarke on February 18, 2022 at 11:22 pm

    35 years a smoker . you want legalisation which means it will be TAXABLE at the same rate as tobacco decriminalisation is what needed lookin at you 4 on screen id guess 2 of you werent born when ch 4 did a pot night evening .



  10. VA on February 18, 2022 at 11:24 pm

    UK PLEASE, DON’T SEND ANYMORE HONEST PEOPLE WHO SMOKE CANNABIS IN JAIL, BECAUSE THEY WILL KILLED BY REAL CRIMINALS AND GAMGS INSIDE THE JAIL,AND YOU THE UK WILL PART OF THAT, YOU WILL PARTNER OF THE HOMICIDE OF A NON CRIMINAL PERSON WHO SMOKE CANNABIS FOR HIS ILLNESSES NOT RECONIZE BY THE UK NHS, BUT RECOGNIZED BY SPECIALIST, SPECIALIST THAT THEY ASK 400$ FOR TO PRESCRIBE CANNABIS LEGALLY … THIS IS A SHAME … UK STOP TO KILL PEOPLE SENDING INNOCENT HONEST WORKERS WHO SMOKE CANNABIS IN JAIL… WE ARE IN 2021, HALF OF THE WORLD LEGALIZED CANNABIS LIKE THAT UK IS PROMOTING THE ILLEGALITY , PEOPLE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO CULTIVATE A PLANT OR 2 IN THEIR GARDEN OR HOUSE AND NOT TO BE FORCED TO BUY IN THE STREET FROM CRIMINALS . I don’t have 400 $ to pay the doctor , I just being catched the second time with 2 gram of cannabis, and they are threatening to put me in jail… I need help … I suffer of migraine aura ,my case is worst, I have 10 to 20 headaches a month if I don’t use cannabis, I vomit, I can’t see from one eyes because the Aura, and that make me loose job ….. but if I use regularly cannabis, I don’t vomit, I don’t have 10 or 20 headache a month but just 3 to 7 … I eat regularly…
    From when I was 6 they certificate my illness, sometimes the headache are strong that half of my face is almost paralysed and the migraine aura make me stay close in a dark room , sweating for the pain and asking help to the god… I LOVE UK, BUT UK IS NEAR TO PUT ME IN JAIL JUST BECAUSE CANNABIS , JUST BECAUSE I AM POOR AND I CAN’T PAY SPECIALIST …
    the medicine I get from my migraine help yes , but its wrote on it :" CAN CAUSE HEART BREAKING, CAN CAUSE STROKES, CAN CAUSE EUPHORIA…. this is the cure ? Risk to causing me hearth break , strokes and euphoria 20 times a month ????? Please, someone help me.



  11. Deslumbrado on February 18, 2022 at 11:24 pm

    should be legal, vote labour, green party, the right wing wont legalise it..



  12. Vitalie iurcu on February 18, 2022 at 11:24 pm

    Fucking narko



  13. john Evangelou on February 18, 2022 at 11:24 pm

    To the 50% that don’t want weed, don’t fucking smoke weed! Simple



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  15. Sam Cottle's Wind Tunnel on February 18, 2022 at 11:29 pm

    What they’re really scared of is having to deal with the past convictions for cannabis and people that have been imprisoned over the years. What do they do, just turn around and say ‘we’re sorry’? Somehow I don’t think that’d quite cut it, but there you go.



  16. Meanmachine on February 18, 2022 at 11:30 pm

    I’m high as a kite watching this xx



  17. Jai Bradshaw on February 18, 2022 at 11:31 pm

    Ive been smoking "weed" cannabis all my life, its been a part of my life when one was younger the police were alot more stringent and there was a prison centence. Now you can have personal ammount and just get it taken off of you. I totaly avoke and adear to the future of cannabis "famillierization" and legislation. Cannabis is a super future and cleverer super drug there for very clever people. And not as overwhelming as the usual alcohol consumption. I may discribe a variation from the norm. Legalize cannabis now!!!!!!!



  18. Brad Czajkowski on February 18, 2022 at 11:32 pm

    Now that the UN has changed the classification on cannabis from dangerous drug to medication it will start to change for the better



  19. Daz Howe on February 18, 2022 at 11:32 pm

    Uk mps make money growing it and exporting it they don’t want to loose a pay check



  20. Carlton UK on February 18, 2022 at 11:33 pm

    Please let me join a podcast one day if yous do one lads, loads of good points made here we need more of this spread that word, top lads, sorry to comment loads lol



  21. corky on February 18, 2022 at 11:36 pm

    Vaporiser it save the weed put in coffee more healthy



  22. Carlton UK on February 18, 2022 at 11:36 pm

    Defo a mess pls lads help them sort it just need a few brain haha, everyone is just frustrated, it wud sort our country out, we all love weed mate it’s just the anti drug idiots



  23. Carlton UK on February 18, 2022 at 11:37 pm

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  25. Harry Bagley on February 18, 2022 at 11:39 pm

    Uk queen is controlling and taxing the CDC this is because she can’t be prosecuted. She and her council dictates which companies get contacts. The Uk provides America with cannabis and many other countries. The uk is the biggest exporter of cannabis per year for last 5 years. British sugar grow cannabis all over the uk for export. The UK have always used cannabis as a way of getting money untaxed into the economy all illegal sales of drugs boast and is counted in the financial growth of the uk.



  26. Pete 67 on February 18, 2022 at 11:39 pm

    You can only get cannabis if you have one of three conditions and you can’t get a prescription for mayor back pain like I have, it’s the pharmaceutical won’t let it happen, it’s got nothing to do with doctors at all and I live in London UK.



  27. Fri Rose on February 18, 2022 at 11:40 pm

    Its a two sided sword, people with certain mental health issues can be negatively affected by it.



  28. 12lippylucy on February 18, 2022 at 11:42 pm

    There are a few cafes popping up in uk. Doctors in uk will refuse cannabis as medication. Nick Earles hit the nail on the head "95% of doctors don’t know anything about cannabis.



  29. DJ Lyonga on February 18, 2022 at 11:44 pm


  30. Graham Bunton on February 18, 2022 at 11:45 pm

    Lawyers in England are called solicitors because they screw you.



  31. john Evangelou on February 18, 2022 at 11:45 pm

    14 years has to be for a huge amount and definitely not 3 oz



  32. Dazza's World on February 18, 2022 at 11:47 pm

    sorry but there estimation of around 1.4 million users in the UK is way off the mark, im from Bristol UK which has a population of around 460 odd thousand people and virtually everyone I know smokes it everyone I know knows of other people that smokes it, and that is in Bristol alone, so if you take London, Birmingham, Manchester, 66.65 million in the UK and id be happy to say at least half of that population smoke or use’s cannabis in some way



  33. Ben Martin on February 18, 2022 at 11:47 pm

    I live on the u.k and I’ve never met one smoker that’s afraid of the police. They only go for the "chavvy" dick heads who run around the street. People home growing a few plants in a shed for themselves are more or less left alone. It’s just the dealers they go for.



  34. Carlton UK on February 18, 2022 at 11:47 pm

    Yeh just screw everyone up on pills instead idiots



  35. king plow on February 18, 2022 at 11:48 pm

    I hate when people try to pair ireland with england were in Europe not the uk



  36. Resonant consciousness on February 18, 2022 at 11:48 pm

    Follow the money, prisons are very very expensive! Great if you own prisons. These two solicitors? Are kinda dumb and a bit posh. They keep referring to Marijuana when it’s Cannabis sativa/indica or rudilaris. Marijuana is a term from the USA to make Cannabis sound more South American or Mexican which has always been a political/economic thing…. Do we have Skunks in the uk? What! No. These poor rich kids.



  37. Carlton UK on February 18, 2022 at 11:49 pm

    That’s it mate nail on head, tax tax tax money country debt free!!!! Open our eyes man, we need a petition, yeh exactly alcohol perfectly legal and kills u idiots!



  38. john Evangelou on February 18, 2022 at 11:50 pm

    It’s called skunk because it’s aroma is really pungent, and really pleasant. a skunk however is pretty fucking far from pleasant.



  39. Janes-e on February 18, 2022 at 11:53 pm

    Hemp for victory in war times. Alcohol abuse is swept under the carpet and its the worst drug ever..



  40. Dan Bowskill on February 18, 2022 at 11:54 pm

    Weed legalised in the UK??? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LcDmwFwJdk



  41. Shannan Schisler on February 18, 2022 at 11:55 pm

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  42. john hammond on February 18, 2022 at 11:56 pm

    I am 76 years old and have enjoyed weed for years. I have a tent in my living room and grow a crop that lasts me months.
    Nothing better than to vape a little home grown weed and then settle down to watch Netflix.
    Weed and a happy retirement is an awesome way to see your life out folks. 🙂



  43. Siobhan Michele on February 19, 2022 at 12:00 am

    I’ve been trying to get license to grow 3 hemp plants don’t think it’s gunna happen unfortunately so it’s still costing me £15 per gram I think uk system is more control than anything



  44. john Evangelou on February 19, 2022 at 12:00 am

    I don’t know what these people are talking about, Britain loves weed.



  45. Martin Edwards on February 19, 2022 at 12:02 am

    20 quid for an eigth….no chance…try 10 quid a gram



  46. Netty Voyager on February 19, 2022 at 12:02 am

    can you talk to some one sat there with a dead sheep on there head ?



  47. Mazza Blanco on February 19, 2022 at 12:04 am

    5:23 title



  48. Paul Lynch on February 19, 2022 at 12:04 am

    It’s illegal but it’s ok to inject us with a vaccine they say will be the answer, who made them god and why do we live our lives to rules only a small minority want us to abide by, we are being taken for dicks and I think we are all seeing it now, piss take



  49. Paddy's Perspective on February 19, 2022 at 12:06 am

    Got it wrong. Most dealers do a pound a point in the uk. So an eighth is 35 pounds. You can get it for 25 if u want to smoke bog weed. We need to sort this shit show out and allow our people to use cannabis. We have been producing cannabis since 1998. 23 years they have suppressed there own people and exploited other countries. It’s about time they started looking after there own. Or it’s time we strat taking out the grow sites in the UK.



  50. Carlton UK on February 19, 2022 at 12:09 am

    Top lads hope it’s legal soon, u can see how daft our country looks wen its put like this, fine for codiene opioid painkillers but not a bit of thc pathetic and backward! They best sort it out, why say cancard this cancard that then do fukall, boris fukin Johnson plum!