Whether cannabis should be legally available for medicinal purposes was the subject of a hot topic session at this year's British Pharmaceutical Conference.
The session chairman, Mr SULTAN DAJANI (member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Council) welcomed the audience and began on a lighthearted note suggesting that "Pot luck or miracle cure" might have been an alternative title for the session.
In a more serious vein, he went on to say that there was a growing belief that cannabis had therapeutic benefits and that this ought to be properly investigated in the best interest of patients. "We [pharmacists] must be the forerunners in this initiative," Mr Dajani stated. He also drew attention to recent cases where the legal system had shown "clemency" towards patients who were using cannabis for medicinal purposes. Few ideas, it seems, are so firmly held by the public and so doubted by the medical profession as the healing powers of pot. But at last, researchers are tiptoeing......
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