Articles, Studies and Guidance 

Below are a variety of resources I hope you'll find interesting, around the topic of cannabis and hemp. Don't forget to check out the site contents, as there are plenty more elsewhere too!

3 NHS Medical Cannabis Prescriptions in 3 Years - Alfie's Story
(Hannah Deacon for DrugScience, 2021):
https://www.drugscience.org.uk/3-nhs-medical-cannabis-prescriptions-in-3-years-alfies-story/

ADHD & medical cannabis. Maple Tree Consultants (2022). Available at: 

https://www.mapletreeconsultants.co.uk/post/adhd-medical-cannabis

[Accessed 4th May 2022]

Arizona cannabis sales generate 3x the tax revenue of alcohol and tobacco combined. Fernandez, C.J. Tucson (2022). Available at: https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/arizona-cannabis-sales-generate-3x-the-tax-revenue-of-alcohol-and-tobacco-combined [Accessed 4th May 2022]

As a Psychiatrist, I Have Been Amazed By the Power of Medical Cannabis (Dr Tahzid Ahsan for Cannabis Health News, 2022)
https://cannabishealthnews.co.uk/2022/03/09/psychiatrist-amazed-power-medical-cannabis-mentalhealth/

BMJ Lashes Out At State Corruption and Suppression of Science in the UK (The Scot, 2020): https://www.thenational.scot/news/18876154.bmj-lashes-state-corruption-suppression-science-uk/

CBD & Bipolar Disorder. Biles, M. Project CBD (2022). Available at:

https://www.projectcbd.org/medicine/cbd-bipolar-disorder [Accessed 4th May 2022]

CBG (Cannabigerol): The Cannabis Stem Cell. Cooke, J. Daily CBD (2022)

https://dailycbd.com/en/cbg/ [Accessed 4th May 2022]

Can Marijuana Help Those With MS? Dispensaries.com (Green Entrepreneur, 2022). Available at:

https://www.greenentrepreneur.com/article/425052 [Accessed 4th May 2022]

Cannabinoids and the expanded endocannabinoid system in neurological disorders . Cristino, L. , Bisogno, T., De Matzo, V. Nat Rev. Neurol (2022). Available at: 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31831863/ [Accessed 4th May 2022]

Cannabis: How It Affects Our Cognition And Psychology – New Research. Sahakian, B.J., Langley, C., Skumlien, M., Jia, T. IFL Science (2022). Available at:

https://www.iflscience.com/brain/cannabis-how-it-affects-our-cognition-and-psychology-new-research/[Accessed 4th May 2022]

Cannabis and the DVLA (Canna-logic.co.uk, July 2021): https://canna-logic.co.uk/articles/f/cannabis-the-dvla

Cannabis and Economics: Norml.org (2022):
https://norml.org/marijuana/fact-sheets/marijuana-regulation-impact-on-health-safety-economy/

Cannabis and Psychosis: Is there Epidemiological Evidence for an Association? British Journal of Psychiatry (Abstract, 2018) Available at: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/abs/cannabis-and-psychosis/A0CE8AB16862A7F829EEF1AA5BE14C9E [Accessed 4th May 2022]

Cannabis-Based Products for Medicinal Use: Department of Health and Social Care (2018):
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/753444/letter-with-guidance-on-cannabis-based-products-for-medicinal-use.pdf

Cannabis Causes Schizophrenia: Are We Getting the Full Picture? (Jason Reed, 2015, for Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP UK)
http://ukleap.org/cannabis-causes-schizophrenia-are-we-getting-the-full-picture/

Cannabis could be prescribed as painkiller on NHS as hundreds join trial. King, J. The Metro (2022). Available at:

https://metro.co.uk/2022/04/07/nhs-could-prescribe-cannabis-as-painkiller-as-hundreds-join-trial-16427192/[Accessed 4th May 2022]

Cannabis Hemp, A Chronology Of: Cannabis Campaigners Guide (CCG): A https://ccguide.org/chronol.php

Cannabis Industry Wales (2018 Arfon Jones, Former North Wales Police Crime Commissioner, uploaded by UKCSC, 15 Minutes)
https://youtu.be/gHYUhRDhYfY

Cannabis Legalization is Key to Economic Recovery Much Like Ending Alcohol Prohibition Helped Us Out Of The Great Depression (Forbes 2020)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kriskrane/2020/05/26/cannabis-legalization-is-key-to-economic-recovery-much-like-ending-alcohol-prohibition-helped-us-out-of-the-great-depression/?sh=647410303241

Cannabis Patients Aren’t Addicts – It’s Time To Change The Narrative. Volte-face (2022). Available at: 

https://volteface.me/dependency-response-article/ [Accessed 4th May 2022]

Cannabis Social Clubs in Spain. Legalization Without Commercialization (Transform Drug Policy Foundation, 2018)
https://transformdrugs.org/blog/cannabis-social-clubs-in-spain-legalisation-without-commercialisation

Cannabis, Tobacco, Alcohol Use, and the Risk of Early Stroke

A Population-Based Cohort Study of 45 000 Swedish Men (Stroke, 2016). Available at:

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/STROKEAHA.116.015565 [Accessed 4th May 2022]

Cannabis, Uses For: Cannabis Campaigners Guide (CCG):
https://ccguide.org/uses.php

Driving and Cannabis: The Facts
(Seed Our Future, Oct 2021)
https://www.seedourfuture.co.uk/2021/10/12/driving-and-cannabis/

Drugs -Medicinal Cannabis (Home Office Circular - Crime, Policing and Fire Group - Drugs and Alcohol Unit, 2018)
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/753366/Medicinal_Cannabis_-_Home_Office_Circular_2018_FINAL.pdf

Drugs Policy- 50 Years of Failure: Grahame Norris (Labour MP)(2021)
https://labourhub.org.uk/2021/03/24/drugs-policy-fifty-years-of-failure/

Economics: (Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), 2022):
https://www.mpp.org/issues/economics/

Economics of Legalising Cannabis Pricing and Policing Are Crucial, The (City University of London, 2019)
https://www.city.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2019/07/the-economics-of-legalising-cannabis-pricing-and-policing-are-crucial

Edinburgh family say UK Government 'broke their promise' on medication for son (Jacob Farr, 2022, for Edinburgh Live)
https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburgh-family-say-uk-government-23232734

Expenditure per prison place in England and Wales 2015-2020 . Clark, D. Statistica (2022)

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1202172/cost-per-prisoner-england-and-wales/ [Accessed 4th May 2022]

Exposed: National disgrace as a quarter of a million patients that are turned into DRUG ADDICTS by their doctors. Daily Mail (2022). Available at:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4354304/Thousands-turned-drug-addicts-doctors.html [Accessed 4th May 2022]

Fifty Years: How Marijuana Became Re-Legalized In America. Cannabis Business Executive 2018). Available at:

https://www.cannabisbusinessexecutive.com/2018/01/fifty-years-marijuana-became-re-legalized-america/ [Accessed 4th May 2022]

Former Copper Councillor Calls For Legalization of Cannabis in the UK (Canex, 2002): https://canex.co.uk/cannabis-uk-cllr-matt-wynne/

Growing the UK medical cannabis sector through exportation. Medical Cannabis Network (2022). Available at:

https://www.healtheuropa.com/growing-the-uk-medical-cannabis-sector-through-exportation/115298/ [Accessed 4th May 2022]

Health Scientist Blacklisting and the Meaning of Marijuana in the Oval Office in the Early 1970s. Sunil Kumar Aggarwal MD PhD, 2017. Available at: 

https://medium.com/@ReachCASP/health-scientist-blacklisting-and-the-meaning-of-marijuana-in-the-oval-office-in-the-early-1970s-71ea41427b49

[Accessed 4th May 2022]

Hempspan Progresses With Plans For Hemp Houses (Stephanie Price, 2022, for
Cannabis Wealth)
https://cannabiswealth.co.uk/2022/03/11/hemspan-plans-hemp-houses/

How Soldiers Turned to Marijuana During the Vietnam War. Lynch, Patrick (2020) Available at: 

https://wayofleaf.com/blog/marijuana-during-the-vietnam-war [Accessed 4th May 2022]

How to Get a Legal Prescription in the UK (2022):
https://www.thenational.scot/news/19919515.get-prescription-legal-medical-cannabis-uk/?ref=fbshr

How to Read Cannabis Research Papers (Lauren Wilson, 2022, for Weedmap)
https://weedmaps.com/news/2022/03/how-to-read-cannabis-research-papers/

Introduction to the endogenous cannabinoid system, An. Hui-Chen Lu and Ken Mackie. Biological Psychiatry (2016). Available at: 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4789136/ [Accessed 4th May 2022]

Is the UK any closer to legalising cannabis? O'Dowd, L. Leafie (2022). Available at:

https://www.leafie.co.uk/articles/will-the-uk-legalise-cannabis/ [Accessed 4th May 2022]

Israel Announces New Cannabis Laws To Protect Users From All Criminalisation (Canex, 2022) https://canex.co.uk/israel-announces-new-cannabis-laws-to-protect-users-from-all-criminal-prosecution/

Lanarkshire lad is 'living proof' cannabis oil is life-changing for kids with epilepsy as he returns to taekwondo (Andrea Lambrou, 2022, for The Daily Record)
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/in-your-area/lanarkshire/lanarkshire-lad-living-proof-cannabis-26417843

Like Kate Garraway, I care for my partner 24/7 and it’s incredibly lonely (Kevin Middleditch, 2022, The Metro)
https://metro.co.uk/2022/02/23/like-kate-garraway-i-care-for-my-partner-24-7-its-incredibly-lonely-16155485/

Living with autism and ADHD – how medical cannabis helps me. Pearce, J. Cannabis Health News (2022). Available at:

https://cannabishealthnews.co.uk/2022/04/16/living-with-autism-and-adhd-how-medical-cannabis-helps-me-mentalhealth/ 

[Accessed 4th May 2022]

MPs believe cannabis will be legal in the UK within the next decade. Hinton, P. (2019). Available at:

https://mixmag.net/read/mps-believe-cannabis-will-be-legal-in-the-uk-within-the-next-decade-2-news/ [Accessed 4th May 2022]

Majority of British public support legalisation of cannabis, survey reveals. Rahim, Z. The Independent (2018). Available at: 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cannabis-legalisation-uk-medical-marijuana-weed-billy-caldwell-alfie-dingley-survey-a8606646.html [Accessed 4th May 2022]

Man, 80, arrested for growing cannabis plants for CBD oil that’s ‘saving his life’ (Olivier Vergnault, 2020, for Cornwall Live)
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/man-80-arrested-growing-cannabis-3816578

Medicinal Cannabis: The change that would be ‘enormously helpful’ - Ruby Deevoy (Christopher Sharp, 2022 for Express.co.uk
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1578275/medicinal-cannabis-gps-prescribing-ruby-deevoy

Medical Cannabis Patients Forced Back Onto Illicit Drugs Market (2022):
https://www.thenational.scot/politics/19840430.medical-cannabis-patients-forced-onto-illicit-drugs-market/

Medicinal cannabis being used by tens of thousands of Australians as access becomes easier (Australia)(Olivia Willis, 2022, for ABC Health and Wellbeing)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2022-03-12/medicinal-cannabis-prescriptions-grow-as-access-becomes-easier/100901244

Medical cannabis patterns of use and substitution for opioids & other pharmaceutical drugs, alcohol, tobacco, and illicit substances; results from a cross-sectional survey of authorized patients. Lucas, P., Baron, E.P., Jikomes, N. Harm Reduction Journal (2019). Available at:

https://harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12954-019-0278-6 [Accessed 4th May 2022]

Misuse of Drugs Act: Counting the Costs (Transform Drug Policy Foundation, 2022)
https://transformdrugs.org/blog/misuse-of-drugs-act-counting-the-costs

More than 5,000 medical cannabis licences given by States of Guernsey. BBC (2022). Available at:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-61188000 [Accessed 4th May 2022]

Multiple sclerosis: 'I used to cope with MS, but cannabis helped me change that'. Deevoy, R. The National Scot (2022). Available at:

https://www.thenational.scot/news/20053592.multiple-sclerosis-i-used-cope-ms-cannabis-helped-change-that/[Accessed 4th May 2022]

No Victim: No Crime
(Seed Our Future, 2020):
https://www.seedourfuture.co.uk/no-evidence-no-crime/

Ongoing Stigmatisation of Cannabis, The Medicines. Sapphire Clinics (2022). Available at:

https://www.sapphireclinics.com/the-ongoing-stigmatisation-of-cannabis-medicines/ [Accessed 4th May 2022]

Police Return Prescribed Cannabis to It's Owner (10th February 2022)
https://www.shetnews.co.uk/2022/02/10/police-return-prescribed-cannabis-to-its-owner/

Private Medicinal Cannabis Prescriptions Will be Available Soon (Isle of Man)(Sam Turton, 2022, for Gef)
https://gef.im/2022/03/10/private-medicinal-cannabis-prescriptions-will-be-available-soon/

Psychedelics and cannabis shows promise in treating Veterans with PTSD (Sue Sisley, MD, 2021, for Morning Reveille)
https://reveille.vet/advice/psychedelics-and-cannabis-shows-promise-in-treating-veterans-with-ptsd/

Regulatory Uncertainty – why the ACMD may not have appreciated that their recommendations could destroy the UK consumer CBD market (Edward Henry QC and Jade Proudman, 2022, for Mountford Chambers)
https://www.mountfordchambers.com/regulatory-uncertainty-why-the-acmd-may-not-have-appreciated-that-their-recommendations-could-destroy-the-uk-consumer-cbd-market/

Science behind the DEA's Long War on Marijuana, The(Scientific American, 2016) Available at:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-science-behind-the-dea-s-long-war-on-marijuana/ [Accessed 4th May 2022]

Share of adults in England and Wales who have taken Cannabis 2001-2020 . Clark, D. Statistica (2022). Available at:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/976850/cannabis-use-in-the-uk/ [Accessed 4th May 2022]

Statistics on Drug Misuse, England, 2019. NHS Digital (2019). Available at:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/statistics-on-drug-misuse/2019/part-4-drug-use-among-young-people [Accessed 4th May 2022]

Stronger Than Steel: Hemp Re-Bar Could Start and Eco-Friendly Movement in Building Materials (Cannabis.net, 2021) https://cannabis.net/blog/news/stronger-than-steel-hemp-rebar-could-start-an-ecofriendly-movement-in-building-materials

Study Finds Recreational Cannabis Legalization Reduces Prescription Drug Demand. Herrington, A.J. High Times (2022). Available at:

https://hightimes.com/news/study-finds-recreational-cannabis-legalization-reduces-prescription-drug-demand/[Accessed 4th May 2022]

Survey finds 55% of Europeans support legal recreational cannabis use. Ahmed, A. (2022). Available at: 

https://mixmag.net/read/europeans-cannabis-legalisation-support-eu-marijuana-news [Accessed 4th May 2022]

Switzerland to begin recreational cannabis trial this summer. Dineen, K. Leafie (2022). Available at: 

https://www.leafie.co.uk/news/switzerland-recreational-cannabis-trial-this-summer/ [Accessed 4th May 2022]

Troubled History of Hemp and Cannabis in the UK (Leafie.co.uk, January 2022)
https://www.leafie.co.uk/articles/history-hemp-cannabis-uk/

UK Halts CBD imports As It Enforces Strict Rules On Trace THC Levels (Business Cann, 2021) BusinessCann.com:
https://businesscann.com/uk-halts-cbd-imports-as-it-enforces-strict-rules-on-trace-thc-levels/

UK Is Opening Up to Medical Cannabis, The Prohibition Partners (2022). Available at:

https://prohibitionpartners.com/2022/04/14/the-uk-is-opening-up-to-medical-cannabis/[Accessed 4th May 2022]

UK Model Vs Portuguese Model (where drugs are decriminalised): BBC Video Explainer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/clip/b9697f02-caae-49f0-add5-b6c425b6ebc9

U.S. cannabis laws projected to cost generic and brand pharmaceutical firms billions. Bednarek Z, Doremus JM, Stith SS.  PLoS One. 2022 Aug 31;17(8):e0272492. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0272492. PMID: 36044436; PMCID: PMC9432746. Available at:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36044436/[Accessed 24th September 2022]

Ultimate Guide to CBG Flower: CBG Strains & Best Products, The. Daily CBD (2001). Available at: 

https://dailycbd.com/en/cbg/hemp-flower/ [Accessed 4th May 2022]

Use of Cannabis for Headache Disorders, The. Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research (2017). Available at:

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/can.2016.0033 [Accessed 4th May 2022]

War on Drugs is a War of Racial Prejudice, The (Sian Berry, Green Party. 2021)
https://www.huckmag.com/perspectives/sian-berry-the-war-on-drugs-is-a-war-of-racial-prejudice/

We're forced to risk jail and grow our own cannabis to stop terrifying seizures. Robertson, S., Connor, L., Decoy, R. The Mirror (2022)

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/were-forced-risk-jail-grow-26839574 [Accessed 4th May 2022]

What is Skunk Weed? A Beginners Guide to Skunk (Sensi Seeds, 2013)
https://sensiseeds.com/en/blog/what-is-skunk-weed-a-beginners-guide-to-skunk/

Why NHS trials won’t help the children relying on medical cannabis now. Sinclair, S. Cannabis Health News (2022). Available at:

https://cannabishealthnews.co.uk/2022/03/04/why-nhs-trials-wont-help-children-relying-medical-cannabis/[Accessed 4th May 2022]

Wootton Report, The: Extract from 'The Strange Case of Pot' by Michael Schofield (Penguin, 1971). Schaeffer Drug Library

Available at: https://druglibrary.net/schaffer/Library/studies/wootton/strange.htm [Accessed 4th May 2022]

World’s first carbon-negative medical cannabis cultivation facility to be built in the UK (Jack Ramage, 2021, for Green Queen Magazine)
https://greenqueenmagazine.com/environment/carbon-negative-cannabis-cultivation/

Your opinion: Gamma radiation for decontamination of medicinal cannabis (Sensi Seeds, 2020) Available at: https://sensiseeds.com/en/blog/opinion-gamma-radiation-decontamination-medicinal-cannabis/ [Accessed 4th May 2022]

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Section last updated: 28th October 2023