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England's medicines watchdog approves two cannabis-based medicines

A year after specialist doctors were allowed to prescribe cannabis-based medicines, NICE changed its guidelines to allow two of them, for two forms of epilepsy and for multiple sclerosis. It did not allow them for other conditions such as chronic pain, which some patients' groups called a missed opportunity.[1]

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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. 357 · ISBN 9780262366137

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