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 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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50 Comments

  1. @thatcjb1488 on February 22, 2025 at 5:40 am

    Well well well sky News saying sky News things, a handful of prescription. Well that’s a lie because I’m a prescription holder and I know of hundreds of other people that are prescription holders there are multiple clinics in the UK that offer medical cannabis or not only just chronic pain but anxiety and depression problems to well, a handful of other health issues

  2. @banksy6027 on February 22, 2025 at 5:41 am

    8 years auccshully now its gota b e on nhs by 2030 latest its working wonders for me and alit of people i no!✌️💯🇬🇧

  3. @Cainb420 on February 22, 2025 at 5:41 am

    Nhs will need to be forced to provide cannabis instead of opiates. There is no evidence in supporting anything the nhs says but there is evidence in how it helps pain

  4. @dye5915 on February 22, 2025 at 5:42 am

    Im a medicinal Cannabis paitent in the Uk been on medicinal Cannabis for over 2 years now and my Cannabis prescription has been life changing. I mange to sleep more than 2 hours a day, eat a meal, have less pains in general, it help’s my mental health anxiety and depression makes it more managable and I don’t feel like suiciding out of life everyday which for me alone is worth it although it pisses a lot of folk off am here to stay a bit longer 🖕😁

  5. @poe- on February 22, 2025 at 5:43 am

  6. @chuckisnorris on February 22, 2025 at 5:43 am

    I’d be the first to be honest to trial cannabis & cancer, I have myself stage 4 incurable lung cancer & find cannabis & cancer so useful. I recently visited usa, they had info on hospital walls on its effects against nausea etc . Though I will say, again no trials on it specifically with cancer. To help out those with curious minds, imagine cannabis effects on body & mind of any user put against internal receptors as such. Inevitably a delayed response, and in some cases complete remission. Dependant on its formulation

  7. @itsclint146 on February 22, 2025 at 5:49 am

    If there has been no trials why does half of the UK government including Theresa may her husband etc own GW PHARMACEUTICALS the biggest medical cannabis grower in Europe with grows in southern England since the late nineties answer us that it’s all bullshit they have been selling cannabis through the back door for years

  8. @UKMC.Support on February 22, 2025 at 5:50 am

    It’s such shame that 5 years on, progress has been so slow.

  9. @ButtonTheCavalier on February 22, 2025 at 5:50 am

    I hope we are going the right way for NHS getting involved as the scene is a joke (ATM) – Absolute joke how we can’t grow our own??? As it is our medicine so growing it ourselves should definitely be an option.

  10. @BNewtonUK on February 22, 2025 at 5:50 am

    The NHS would save a fortune if they prescribed it. My anti sickness drug alone costs £150 for 10 tablets 😅😂 and I was prescribed 2/3 tablets per day haha

  11. @QU4DP1MP on February 22, 2025 at 5:51 am

    Trials haven’t started because big pharma don’t want them to happen, they;’re the ones pulling all the strings. If cannabis becomes more readly available, more people will see it’s health benefits and stay away from tablets that big pharma pump out for profit

  12. @Goldenhammer8 on February 22, 2025 at 5:53 am

    Alchohol is safer

  13. @chloesimone8885 on February 22, 2025 at 5:54 am

    My dad asked for this treatment after being told he had multiple cancers & no offer of treatment from the nhs they refused & out the blue turned up (3 of them) with 60ml of medazolan & 3 different types of morphine pinned him down violently stabbed him in his arm & ran out the door he died the same day he was euthanised the day after shopping at Tesco I’m glad to hear the release of doctor Wilson Sy on the mass genocide of the elderly & interested to see how the investigation into the coroners turns out for my dads murder at the hands of his gp what’s even worse that was his first face to face interaction with his own doctor the walk in diagnosed him with cancer his gp wouldn’t give him an appointment she had 1 aim to kill her patients

  14. @doityoself6631 on February 22, 2025 at 5:54 am

    Fortunately Project 21 has run a study and offers discounts on flowers for those who take part.

  15. @Goshosekazvam on February 22, 2025 at 5:54 am

    Crazy…

  16. @robgrantham911 on February 22, 2025 at 5:56 am

    The home office said it has concerns as to "mental health and dependance" Meanwhile on streets around britain every weekend they spend billions on people who are aggressive and destructive to society through abuse of a much more dangerous drug.

  17. @Tzhz on February 22, 2025 at 5:57 am

    The obvious answer is because drug companies that couldn’t work out how to patent or profit from cannabis in the early 1900’s outlawed it, and it would lose them billions of pounds from pharmaceuticals. A naturally occuring plant replicates the effects of their drugs better with zero deaths and at a fraction of the cost, it is a danger to their profit margins.

  18. @hamishwoyka5599 on February 22, 2025 at 5:59 am

    CORRUPTION! I swear to god Big Pharma is behind this. Over the years I have tried many different medications prescribed by my GP for mental health issues and they were either ineffective or had horrible side effects. Marijuana has helped me more than anything. Its absurd that its illegal yet alcohol kills people every day.

  19. @Sauronthegreat1967 on February 22, 2025 at 6:01 am

    It’s all about the money. Big pharmaceutical companies have known about all the medicinal benefits of cannabis for decades. Pharmaceutical medicines are a multi billion dollar industry,they want to keep people sick they don’t make drugs to cure ailments they manufacture drugs to help with ailments. Medical grade cannabis has so many beneficial properties it would take me pages and pages of text to describe all the benefits of using cannabis for health and wellness.

  20. @trueseeker262 on February 22, 2025 at 6:04 am

    Dependance? Meaning its going again the profits all these corrupt UK Government. 😢

  21. @stevenkillington5041 on February 22, 2025 at 6:05 am

    If we use it they can’t sell it simple

  22. @ohyeayea3750 on February 22, 2025 at 6:05 am

    Oh my gosh that is shocking, no trial’s funded yet, because of a stigma? SHOCKING. 😳😬💚

  23. @adida.sativa-dv2el on February 22, 2025 at 6:11 am

    It was only made illegal like 100 years ago

  24. @Kamen101 on February 22, 2025 at 6:14 am

    Legalise and free the flower. Was legal then made illegal and never been legal since. Absolute joke. Going from class B to C to B again 😂😂

    Always helped me with my ailments.

  25. @jamestait8676 on February 22, 2025 at 6:14 am

    I popped my ribs doing jiu jitsu, a week of painkills did nothing to the pain. One puff on a spliff and 5 minutes later the pain was all but gone. Now i swear by it

  26. @alexroca6981 on February 22, 2025 at 6:16 am

    £200 a month! Aye right, I’m getting legal Sourdough for £55 for 10g and Modified Gas for £80 for 10g

  27. @SeanChickenDuckSwan on February 22, 2025 at 6:17 am

    Legalise it and regulate it, tax it 1 billion profit estimate. Take the market away from black markets selling harder drugs. Sensible and pragmatic

  28. @Dmt.shrooms on February 22, 2025 at 6:17 am

    Such a shame

  29. @stevenkillington5041 on February 22, 2025 at 6:21 am

    Canabis isNOT opioid facts my dear

  30. @TonysHighAsf on February 22, 2025 at 6:22 am

    Hasn’t started because our leaders want us to watch other countries make a good decision with it while we suffer with fines and prison sentences

  31. @M-zr2kq on February 22, 2025 at 6:22 am

    I am the trial, sign me up. Get me on payroll 😎

  32. @poe- on February 22, 2025 at 6:22 am

    Cannabis is not addictive

  33. @OrtzGaming on February 22, 2025 at 6:23 am

    even if it doesn’t ease pain for everybody it certainly distracts from it and leads to a better life in general for a lot of people. Also that distraction in itself leads to less other medication use also leading to a fuller life.

  34. @adida.sativa-dv2el on February 22, 2025 at 6:26 am

    The government sell it but adults citizens can not use it! The uk is absolutely losing out here

  35. @nathfish8656 on February 22, 2025 at 6:26 am

    This is all I hear when the authorities here discuss cannabis, "Why is cannabis use still being criminalised? "because we haven’t done our checks to see how harmful it could be" So how long will it be until then? "Oh, we haven’t started yet and have no intention of doing". Despite the fact that millions use it every day and is already scientifically proven to have medical use and recreationally is much safer than using alcohol. No one has ever died from overdose, which makes it less dangerous than caffeine.

  36. @Cosmic-Wanderer on February 22, 2025 at 6:31 am

    When they do eventually start letting the public have access to it they will have grown and sprayed it with the nasty artificial feed/soil crap

  37. @kieranmitchelle7948 on February 22, 2025 at 6:31 am

    battles a taboo for a street drug, yet doctors prescribe opioids for pain instead. right…

  38. @NAceCys on February 22, 2025 at 6:32 am

    UK residents are forced to choose between expensive prescriptions or criminality it’s absolutely ridiculous that as a disabled war pensioner to he combat cocktail of drugs the doctors have me on are absolutely horrible and the only relief i get is from cannabis but its very expensive and difficult to get hold of.

  39. @markjwoodford1931 on February 22, 2025 at 6:32 am

    This Is getting pathetic, when will we see the light

  40. @WilsonsOnTheFly on February 22, 2025 at 6:33 am

    Backwards Britain

  41. @LeemarvinHitchman on February 22, 2025 at 6:33 am

    £200!! Sign me up !! It actually costs £680 per month 😏

  42. @gm4n793 on February 22, 2025 at 6:33 am

    Its incredible that here yu can get codeine and all kinds legally but god forbid u smoke a spliff

  43. @5amMusicOfficial on February 22, 2025 at 6:34 am

    Comparing cannabis to opioids is wild

  44. @mandiclarke on February 22, 2025 at 6:34 am

    No surprise there really, the powers that be still have a 70s outdated blinkered view on the devils lettuce..cannabis was seen as a narcotic and outlawed because of the opioid abuse epidemic in the 70s…within the last year scientists from all over the world have been studying CBD, the Endocannabiod system and its link to schizophrenia ..the results have been phenomenal …either someone not keeping up on current events or sweeping it under the carpet but while traditional meds an pharmaceuticals still being used, people with Schizophrenia will continue to suffer..

  45. @arnielee9855 on February 22, 2025 at 6:35 am

    Cost is the answer why

  46. @imwatchingonyoutube5024 on February 22, 2025 at 6:36 am

    Medical cannabis made me ill landed me in hospital

  47. @adida.sativa-dv2el on February 22, 2025 at 6:36 am

    Uk is being flooded with cannabis imports losing billions of pounds.

  48. @thomascross8339 on February 22, 2025 at 6:36 am

    Sky : "we’re literally going to compare opium (KILLS MILLIONS EVERY YEAR) to thc (KILLS NOBODY) in this story where we’re talking about the ‘stigmas’ around cannabis." 🙄

  49. @JBlayzeTV on February 22, 2025 at 6:36 am

    Theres loads of proof cannabis helps medically

  50. @scottanderson3751 on February 22, 2025 at 6:36 am

    Pain? Cannabis stops/stopped my stutter and made my life considerably better.
    Having to pay a premium for a product legally grown/exported from uk for medicinal use to criminals because I can’t legally get it for medicinal use? not so much.
    Thanks government ✌️

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