MEDICINAL USE OF CANNABIS (No. 2)

Early day motion 651, tabled 17 May 1999 by Paul Flynn (Labour). Signed by 105 members.

That this House deplores the continuing criminalisation of thousands of otherwise law-abiding people who use cannabis medicinally to relive chronic pain and distress caused by multiple sclerosis, AIDS, and the side-effects of chemotherapy; and supports the simple change in the law recommended by the House of Lords Select Committee on Science to allow a limited numbers of doctors to prescribe cannabis to named patients in the same way that millions of other prescriptions are now dispensed.

Signatures by party: Labour 72, Liberal Democrat 21, Conservative 8, Labour/Co-operative 3, Plaid Cymru 1.