r/unitedkingdom • u/RandomUsername1604 • 25d ago

Police officers say cannabis is effectively ‘decriminalised’ in the UK .

https://www.leafie.co.uk/news/police-cannabis-decriminalised-survey/

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It's super easy to get a legal medical prescription for cannabis in the UK by jumping through pretty minimal hoops. The doctors who prescribe it to you are doctors, but it's clear their main objective is to try and sell you more weed (that's their business model after all). The whole thing is pretty farcical, just legalise it already. Let me just go to a shop and buy it rather than having to talk to a doctor whose solution to everything is "have you tried more weed?"

It's so on brand for the UK to reach the same inevitable outcome as other countries, but via a route that is so convoluted and inefficient.

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u/FartingBob Best Sussex 25d ago

Your GP has literally zero incentive to care if you get legal weed or not. They fill out dozens of prescriptions every day and that is no different from any other prescription. This isnt america where doctors get sponsored by drug companies to push their brand.

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u/Ancient_Moose_3000 25d ago

Wow you really just decided to comment based on no knowledge or experience huh?

1) It's almost never prescribed by your GP, I would say never cause I've never heard of it (at least them prescribing actual bud) but you never know. Usually always through a private specialist clinic, GP isn't involved at all 2) It absolutely is different from other prescriptions, it has to go to a special 'review board' at the clinic, and you normally have to have tried at least two other forms of treatment. 3) the private clinics in question only prescribe cannabis, so they are absolutely incentivised to prescribe more of their products to generate revenue like any other business.

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u/jomikko 25d ago

Generally you have to go through private healthcare not your GP for medical marijuana. I think NHS do offer it but only for a very tiny handful of conditions.