UK medical cannabis market 'growing 10% a month'
UK medical cannabis market 'growing 10% a month'
The UK’s medical cannabis market is growing by “roughly 10% a month”, a leading provider has claimed, however the vast majority is facilitated by private clinics rather than the NHS.
Around 50,000 people are currently thought to be accessing the market, after the drug was legalised for medical use in 2018, with the number expected to surpass 300,000 by 2028.
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Put a hippie on as anchor great work in taking the subject seriously
I find videos like this, making associations with certain medical conditions, to be disingenuous. They don’t really care about the wellbeing of others, they just want to use it recreationally for themselves. As for epilepsy, modern medication is simply safer and more effective. Cannabis is only prescribed to individuals with incredibly rare forms of the condition, where nothing else works.
Cannabis Medicine is Legal in the UK and has been since 2018. This news article is evidently set up to create fear in the minds of the viewers but clearly the most frightening thing about this video is the reporters hairstyle! 😂
Just remember the nhs prescribes opioids which are proven to be worse for you than marijuana/cannabis
Were the biggest exporter of cannabis in europe, have been for decades, yet its still illegal for recreational use 🤷
Get Keir Starmer out, doesn’t care about us at all 🖕🏻
Cannabis has shown to have many harmful efeects. We should be against drug abuse. Many places teach kids dangerous of cannabis.
no no, its a dangerous drug that affects peoples mental health, go ask the nhs, they will tell you, and well, they know best dont they!! 😂
Whoah there…i see and respect the mullet
Legalise it. We export it hypocritically.
Just legalise it 😂
His hair lol
absolute crooks.just let people grow their own
I suffer from severe joint pain , my gp has run out of ideas to help me as painkillers don’t work , and here’s me self medicating thanks to the local dealer hooking me up with oil .
Two tier medical cannabis. If you can afford to buy it it’s legal but if you’re poor and grow your own then you are persecuted and prosecuted with the threat of imprisonment.
The system is morally wrong.
People are being punished for growing their own medical cannabis while large overseas companies are raking in huge profits because it’s illegal to grow your own.
You can grow your own food
Brew your own beer
Distill your own spirits
Grow your own tobacco…
But when it comes to natural medicine you have to pay unaffordable prices for something you can grow yourself!!
That’s not just unjustified regulation it’s capitalism out of suffering due to medical poverty.
If a person is suffering in pain and distress due to a medical condition how is it morally acceptable to make them pay a high price for medicine while threatening to punish them for growing their own out of financial and medical necessity!?
The government can “ legally “ grow it here. Teresa may’s husband has shares with gw pharmaceuticals, the biggest exporters of cannabis in the world, based in a factory in kent.
Yet if i grow a few plants, im treated like a criminal !
Cannabis heightens how your feeling.
3 to 5 million people that is a bit small pal there is way more people than that 😂
You can get it guys there are cannabis medical in the uk just do a Google search 😂
We need weed
So the government can class a plant as a controlled drug, but make money from it. Conning cnts
Private Medical consultancy is too expensive.
Too be popular
You have to pay £150 for your first Bribe.
Then renew your rolling contract every 3 months for £100 racateering.
Or loose your certificate.
Prices NOT including actual prescription
And the Quality is worse than street weed,
Mould, micro seeds, old brown terpless weed thats travelled from canada
Re potted in germany, then shipped to UK.
You breifly mentioned the "stigma"of sychosis but didnt give any Percent %
As all drugs have side effects and every population has allergies.
All big british investors have already invested into….. PORTUGAL
To grow UK destined medical and spanish rec
Bypassing the need to employ broken brits or pay tax to Starmer and his civil servants.
Exactly what british politics wants
Every other country is cashing in on the green gold except sh!tty britty.
Even "Big Narstie" (as featured) grows in portugal
NO flower for Sale in the UK is grown in the UK to date,
The private medical market is a sad joke
They are reacting they are going to make it harder for me to take my medication when not at home with the smoking ban. The NHS are useless 6 prescriptions handed out in 6 years and all in England, they are shooting them self in the foot as if it ever comes to a vote to make the NHS private I won’t be voting to save them in fact my only hope is that they sack them all and start again, this time with out any of these people stealing a wage
In my experience, the medical cannabis switch from traditional meds has been very positive, which means no more opiates! so then no other problems are caused i.e. hospital admissions (which I’ve had in the past or weight loss). The big downside is the cost but the general service is very good i.e getting the product speaking to the doctors, follow-up appointments etc, better than my GP).
Google quantum dots people grow your own it’s all poisoned
I’m going green soon 👍🏻
4 plants maximum.
My little brother wasn’t sent to prison ! He had a grow house 😂
And I never misuse drugs or convicted of supplying drugs .
Unlike Greater Manchester police that place a Bag of cocaine in the mouth of a dead man handcuffed ! They was never convicted after all the evidence showing they murdered this man and tried covering up their actions by placing evidence !
Now that definitely comes under the Misuse of Drugs act 🤯
Our Government Labour or Tory, doesn’t matter who are frightened of a population who smoke weed, weed encourages alternative thought processes as opposed to the legal system of allowing alcohol to drive the collective mass unconsciousness, it may cause problems for the NHS and the Police but that’s a price they have proven they are prepared to pay, they see weed as an existential threat to the society they can control, hippies from the sixties and seventies can attest to this. Free the Weed. Preferably in our lifetime 😂
legalise it already 🙄
DONT PUT IT ON THE NHS, i smoke my self but to many people saying they need it when they dont, not paying for everyones weed habbit
Kier Starmer isn’t going to strike laws off the books. The people who put him where he is, depend on more laws, not less. The only thing Kier Stalin can be dependable on, is the increase in legislation and the curtailing of freedom. He is a monster that has enriched himself by pretending to care about people. A human rights lawyer who is clueless about the human condition.
Funny that he said gives anxiety it takes mine away decriminalisation is what we need we should all be able to grow or purchase and not for silly prices can easily medicate for a good few months each time at a fraction of the price what big pharma charge us patients
Get rid of the crime and gang wars over soft drugs like weed
So regulate it and tax it like in california make a fortune for the uk economy and allow us safe places to buy top top quality products alcohol does far more damage and is widely accepted and widely availble with absolutely no health benifits what so ever
Some barmy claims in this story, feel free to reach out if you would like a chat.
Legalised 🤘🏼
If it’s legal to grow hair like that it should be legal to grown a plant in the dirt.
legalise
That’s why the government Mate and the NHS made the T21 project
But once again a project what does not work? I was just thrown out of hospital for using legalised cannabis but what once again my human rights have been abused
When do the Disabled get laws to protect us the Disabled people of the uk ??
This comes from Do not get the fox at the box News the freedom of the press the freedom of speech the freedom of the arts under the Magna Carta. I do not consent to no act of law.
Needs to be legalised. It’s actually a joke I can take and get addicted to opioids from the GP / NHS but a drug that’s never killed and would take crazy amounts to die from is so overlooked
Alcohol also induses psychosis, the nicotine in cigarettes can induce anxiety. Alcahol has killed more than smoking has. Weed is less fetal than alcahol and tobacco, it has never killed any individual. Ive heard of a couple cannabis related deaths/cases of heart attacks, yet there was minimal ammounts of thc found in their blood and they had a heart condition. Are the goverment aware that the medicines they prescribe on the nhs also induce anxiety and psychosis to list a few side effects of government medication. I was prescribed sertraline from my gp, i had such anxiety my from the serotonin boost that i got on my knees and asked god to make it stop. Was prescribed codiene for chronic back pain which is worse than cannabis although they only allow temprorary used via limited to like 4 or 5 doeses(box of 28 tablets cant remember the mg but it was low so i took 2 sometimes) that hurt my stomach so cant use that. If they dont legalise i guess ill hsve to move yo the usa. Uk is missing out on a huge recreational cannabis market though. All it does is make people go for street weed, its not laced but its you get what you get and its unreliable and unsafe. Legalise it, let people smoke safe weed. Purchased from legal licensed stores/dispensaries. MAKE IT LEGAL AND RECREATIONAL FOR 18 AND OLDER, SAME AS ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO. LET ADULTS MAKE THEIR OWN CHOISE IF IT DOESNT HARM ANYONE
might as well legalize it so many people have it and it even says medical cannabis it looks to same as usual cannabis and it says medical so why are you taking it of people if your using it in medical and that means it helps you so why not legalize it. ban all the other drugs as there just scabby and keep cannabis legal????
It’s changed my life I now can walk correctly without pain and no more anxiety or depression due to the strains I choose
THANKYOU MAMEDICA
As a fibromyalgia sufferer on a Class A drug (gabapentin) I’ve asked about medical cannabis because the tablets don’t work anymore. No chance! If I knew where to get it, legally or otherwise, I’d do so, sadly I’ve not the first clue! UK is such a backwards place these days.
But they will give you untested covid vaccines without a second thought hahahaha
I don’t think cannabis would benefit the UK, being as we are already off with the fairies.
This sorry, excuse for a leader is only interested in taking freedoms away, not giving them.
The government want u working TIL u die pepleee !!
Tax it
40 year old UK cannabis patient of 18 months. I spent a good 15 years on all kinds of pain medication for a degenerative spinal condition before trying medical cannabis. It’s very expensive but it has given me my life back. I work full time and also run a business. Prior to cannabis I was thinking of wrapping the business up as it was too difficult given the side effects I was struggling to function day to day. The sad thing is many people will view me as a "druggy" when I’m a hard working family man. I urge the UK government to take a more common-sense approach to cannabis and end the stigma.
get rid of starmer and find someone with the balls to legalise it pls