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Allow medical cannabis patients to have open prescription

Submitted on Saturday 18th March 2023

Rejected on Wednesday 22nd March 2023

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)

Petition Action

Allow medical cannabis patients to have open prescription

Petition Details

Medical cannabis patient are having to ether wait without medication or pay extra money to change the strain of their medication if the strain they are prescribed is out of stock or the alternative offered is not appropriate,

Additional Information

saving us from the stress an financial hardship this is causing many people. Stop unnecessary costs. most other countries have a structure that allows a specialist doctor to give an open prescription, meaning that the patients are prescribed by strength an quantity not by strain, we should be able to choose an appropriate strain within the strengths that we are prescribed


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

We can only accept petitions about things the Government or Parliament are directly responsible for.

Decisions about what cannabis based medicinal products to prescribe to patients are a matter for individual clinicians, not the UK Government or Parliament.

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