Cannabis should be legalised for medicinal use, parliamentary group says

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86% of patients experienced “great relief”.

Britain “lags behind” at least 11 other European countries and nearly half of US states as medicinal use of cannabis continues to be illegal.

Cannabis has been recognised as medicine for more than 4,000 years and was only made illegal in the UK in 1971, campaigners say.

But now a parliamentary group is calling for the law to allow patients to use the Class B substance.

A survey commissioned by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG...