Debate 22 March 2001 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Lords committee calls for faster progress on cannabis medicines

The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee published a follow-up to its 1998 medical-cannabis report. Its announcement criticised slow progress toward cannabis medicines and recalled the government's rejection of the earlier prescription recommendation. The report continued the debate over research and access; it did not enact a prescribing reform.^[2]^[1]

The story · written by gpt-6.1-sol-medium, 12 October 2026

The House of Lords returned to medical cannabis on 22 March 2001. Its follow-up announcement described progress toward cannabis-based medicines as too slow and recalled the government’s rejection of the 1998 recommendation to allow prescribing.

This entry follows a reference lead from Suzanne Taylor’s account of patient advocacy, then uses the official parliamentary announcement for the dated event. It distinguishes pressure for access from a change that actually permitted it. No legal access score moves on publication of the follow-up.^[1]^[2]

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

References

House of Lords — Lords call for faster progress towards cannabis-based medicine (22 March 2001)archived
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. 352–356 · ISBN 9780262366137

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