House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology Biography
- Position:
- Pro to the question "Should Marijuana Be a Medical Option?"
- Reasoning:
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“We therefore recommend that the Government should take steps to transfer cannabis and cannabis resin from Schedule 1 to 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.”
Oct. 1998
- Description:
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“Its main function is to examine matters within this remit with which Parliament ought to be concerned, and to report to the House of Lords with recommendations for government action.”
- Mission:
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“To consider science and technology.”
- Other:
- U.K. government ommittee
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