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Cannabis medicines are withdrawn in the United Kingdom

Cannabis-based medicines were finally withdrawn in the United Kingdom after decades of declining medical use. Recreational prohibitions were already in place, and the entry records medical context without a separate score movement.[1]

Listed for context. No score change is recorded for United Kingdom here.

References

  1. Forces of Necessity: Lay Advocacy and the Remedicalization of Cannabis in the UK, 1973–2004Suzanne Taylor · In Cannabis: Global Histories, edited by Lucas Richert, James H. Mills · MIT Press · 2021 · pp. 341–361 · ISBN 9780262366137

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