If you support the legalisation of cannabis but are tired of seeing the same petitions get the same responses try signing mine. The UK is the biggest exporter of cannabis in the world making up 45% of global trade. Let’s hear why they sell a drug which “can unquestionably cause harm to individuals”

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If you support the legalisation of cannabis but are tired of seeing the same petitions get the same responses try signing mine. The UK is the biggest exporter of cannabis in the world making up 45% of global trade. Let’s hear why they sell a drug which “can unquestionably cause harm to individuals”

Paediatric MS medication like Sativex or the forthcoming epilepsy medication Epidiolex contain mainly cannabidiol and a small amount of THC. The thing is THC isn't the big high from smoking weed, that actually comes from a Liver metabolite called 11-Hydroxy-THC.

The amounts of THC in the medication are small - in the case of Sativex it would take about 10 squirts to deliver the same amount of THC as your average edible - 12 squirts is the daily maximum spaced at intervals.

Since it's going right into your bloodstream via the nasal mucosa, the THC can't metabolise into 11-Hydroxy-THC in your Liver.

TL;DR CBD medication doesn't get you high. Marijuana sold as 'medicinal does', but that isn't the same thing.

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