MEDICINAL CANNABIS

Early day motion 3, tabled 17 November 1999 by Paul Flynn (Labour). Signed by 92 members.

That this House deplores the continuing criminalisation of thousands of otherwise law-abiding people who use cannabis medicinally to relieve 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 number of doctors to prescribe cannabis to named patients in the same way that millions of other prescriptions are now dispensed.

Signatures by party: Labour 64, Liberal Democrat 18, Conservative 5, Labour/Co-operative 2, Independent 1, Plaid Cymru 1, Scottish National Party 1.