House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology - Medical Marijuana

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Britain's House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology, published a Nov. 1998 report titled "Cannabis: The Scientific and Medical Evidence," which stated:

“We have received enough anecdotal evidence to convince us that cannabis almost certainly does have genuine medical applications, especially in treating the painful muscular spasms and other symptoms of MS and in the control of other forms of pain…

We therefore recommend that the Government should take steps to transfer cannabis and cannabis resin from Schedule 1 of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations to Schedule 2, so as to allow doctors to prescribe an appropriate preparation of cannabis, albeit as an unlicensed medicine and on the named-patient basis, and to allow doctors and pharmacists to supply the drug prescribed.”
Nov. 1998