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Nutt, David (2022) Why doctors have a moral imperative to prescribe and support medical cannabis—an essay. Drug Science,

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The field of medicine developed empirically with doctors doing what they could to help reduce the suffering and improve the health of their patients. Medicines were what doctors gave patients to assist this process. Medical cannabis presents a novel challenge to current medical practice—many patients reporting large benefits from self-medicating with illicitly sourced products would dearly like to have them prescribed on the NHS but are unable to do so. Cannabis has been classed as a medicine in the United Kingdom since November 2018....

Item Type
Article
Publication Type
International
Drug Type
Cannabis, Prescription/Over the counter
Intervention Type
Treatment method
Date
26 January 2022
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