should THC be legalised in the U.K for medicinal use?

Answer 1

yes

Answer 2

Yes! They're doing trials on it at the moment I believe, so it could be a possibility in the future. Don't see why it can't be legalised for recreational use too though, it's not as if it's any worse than having a drink and a cigarette, and if it were legalised then it could be safely regulated. But going back to the medicinal uses, I have a friend who has MS (Multiple Sclerosis) and THCs not only reduce the discomfort of this illness, but also reduce the accompanying stress, allowing the body to calm and thus helping to reduce symptoms.

The only problem I can see with it is the physical or psychological side-effects from overdosing, but then again, you can get lung cancer from cigarettes, and alcohol poisoning and delirium tremens from drinking so...

Answer 3

The principal constituent of cannabis, Delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), is moderately effective in treating nausea and vomiting, appetite loss, and acute and chronic pain. Oral THC (dronabinol) and the synthetic cannabinoid, nabilone, have been registered for medical use in the US and UK, but they have not been widely used because patients find it difficult to titrate doses of these drugs. Advocates for the medical use of cannabis argue that patients should be allowed to smoke cannabis to relieve these above-mentioned symptoms.

Some US state governments have legislated to allow the medical prescription of cannabis, but the US federal government has tried to prevent patients from obtaining cannabis and threatened physicians who prescribe it with criminal prosecution or loss of their licence to practise. In the UK and Australia, committees of inquiry have recommended medical prescription (UK) and exemption from criminal prosecution (New South Wales, Australia), but governments have not accepted these recommendations. The Canadian government allows an exemption from criminal prosecution to patients with specified medical conditions. It has recently legislated to provide cannabis on medical prescription to registered patients, but this scheme so far has not been implemented.

Some advocates argue that legalising cannabis is the only way to ensure that patients can use it for medical purposes. However, this would be contrary to international drug control treaties and is electorally unpopular. The best prospects for the medical use of cannabinoids lie in finding ways to deliver THC that do not involve smoking and in developing synthetic cannabinoids that produce therapeutic effects with a minimum of psychoactive effects. While awaiting these developments, patients with specified medical conditions could be given exemptions from criminal prosecution to grow cannabis for their own use, at their own risk.

Answer 4

It should be legalised for recreational use as far as I'm concerned

Answer 5

thc has no known medicinal use nowhere in the journals of medicine has there been any article to substantiate this claim nowhere at all

Answer 6

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Answer 7

i recon it should be legalised full stop

Answer 8

I dunno what is it?