Shared with kind permission from Guy Coxall (www.seedourfuture.co.uk), May 2022:
"For those of you who have a medical prescription and drive.
We are being contacted by increasing numbers of people who have been pulled by the police for a 'smell of cannabis' then swabbed and arrested.
If you have a medical prescription, you have a statutory medical defence as long as you are not impaired and follow your practitioner's advice.
Unfortunately, the police are still processing people even when informed of a legal prescription!
Seed our Future have been supporting patients in court with good success but it shouldn't even go to court. To alleviate the stress, we have produced this 'Statement of Fact' document.
Print this out and keep it in your car. If you get pulled, show it to the officer alongside your prescription and politely ask them to carry out their due dilligence. If they ignore this, warn them that you have the right to take them to a civil court for unlawful arrest and false imprisonment.
You can also use this document in court as your defence.
Hope it helps".
See 'Statement of Fact' below