Make medical cannabis available on the NHS for qualifying private patients.

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Atm people are having to use their disability income often to pay for prescription cannabis after all other methods have failed. This should now be available on the NHS as there is more than enough evidence globally for it's wide range of healing benefits. It is simply unacceptable.

Currently my prescription costs £350 a month that is all my PIP payments , I have several conditions that were very hard to deal with on the 5 prescription medications the NHS was providing.

This is discrimination against people with severe disabilitys in desperate need for medication only currently available privately. Why? It's been legal on script since 2018 it's time the NHS gave out more scripts.

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

We understand you are concerned about access to medical cannabis on the NHS, however GPs can already prescribe medical cannabis for people suffering from one of a number of conditions. It's therefore not clear how you would like the current availability of medical cannabis to change.

Timeline

7 Jul 2022	Petition opened for signatures
12 Jul 2022	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 12 Jul 2022

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