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Cannabis - Prescription Pot Luck?
Cannabis-based medicines have been legal in the UK for five years -- so why are so few people getting them on the NHS?
Cannabis-based medicines have been legal in the UK for five years, after a high-profile campaign helped change the law. The change gave hope to people with conditions such as Tourette's Syndrome and rare forms of epilepsy, but so far only a handful of patients have been prescribed medicinal cannabis on the NHS. Others are spending hundreds or even thousands of pounds on prescriptions from private clinics.
For this episode of 5 Minutes On, our health correspondent, Alastair Fee, finds out why this is the case.
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