Does the UK’s law on CBD need updating? | ITV News



An estimated 6.5 million people in the UK are using CBD products, but suppliers say the current law leaves one product in a legal …

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  1. Countries with Death penalties for Drugs ! Allow cannabis 😂
    I’ve had 20+ convictions for carrying small amounts of cannabis.
    But I’ve never seen a prison sentence 🤯
    So if cannabis was that bad and could send you to prison .
    I’m telling everyone it’s bollocks and I’m going to be growing my own soon👍🏻

  2. I had a CBD shop in Dorset. I used to sell the flower. The old bill would never leave me alone. They followed me everywhere. They even sent undercover in the gym to try and befriend me. Asking me questions while i was trying to workout. I was bombarded with non stop phone calls, messages on social media asking me if i sold the real thing instead of CBD flower.
    It got that bad i started filming them, everytime they sent an undercover in my shop.
    They would claim that they had cancer or their child had tourettes to try and catch my out. I was 100% legit and only ever sold cbd. In the end i went down the police station with a solicitor to get them to back off.
    What really sucked was that there are 3 nearby shops to me. Owned by turks or kurdish people selling just about everything you want under the counter. To this day the police have left them alone.
    There is now an obvious 2 tier justice system in this country. I will never forgive the pigs for the way they acted.

  3. The issue is the private clinics are making BANK at the moment.. Just legalize it, the people who are going to use it do not care if its legal or not they will still do it so might aswell make tax money from it, rather than let a criminals profit.

  4. I want to know why hemp farming is still not legal in the uk. All this focus on drug consumption irritates me. Hemp is the most useful plant on the planet and essential for our future sustainability and cannot get people high. Why is its growth still being prohibited?

  5. Why ban meds that we need better then opem and outher meds im on thc helps me a lot but cbd is legal tip 3 one day nomal thc will be legal you ask to much tax on us all why not tax this n sell the alcohol drug is much weras

  6. Many in the comments are clueless. To get medicinal prescriptions you need your summary care records which your doctor won't give you even with a legal obligation to do so and a written signed request. You also need to pay for consultations and followups each month or so ontop of the prescription. Nobody that needs it can afford it and as result we are losing population.

  7. The UK's law on THC needs updating not CBD. We are in a financial crisis with many at risk of death due to either poor circumstances, lack of support or medical negligence/ignorance (workers on strike, this means you)

  8. The joke of this whole situation is that laws have never had any negative impact on people’s use of drugs. Throughout history, the evidence is clear that prohibition causes an increase in criminal enterprise and organised crime but no decrease in drug use.

    The law is irrelevant. People will always want to enjoy psychoactive substances. Weed, alcohol, cocaine, opioids; it doesn’t matter. People enjoy being high and happy. The only future where people aren’t breaking the law to get high is a future where drug legalisation happens.

  9. over 5 years of medical use being legalized and there has not been 1 law amendment or change, the full thing need urgently looked at or just legalize the whole thing

  10. FairPlay to George for putting himself out there! This is what we need in our industry more people standing up for this plant, CBD flower is the most natural form to consume CBD in. To get all these CBD products we need to grow the Hemp plant but our government in UK doesn't want to acknowledge this so our farmers are left to destroy the most valuable part off there crop!

  11. CBD has helped my dad with his spinal injury more than any medicine he’s taken. By far. Plus it’s far less damaging to his body & has substantially less side effects. There is zero excuse to keep cbd illegal or to prevent it from being accessed by people. Btw my dad has always been very anti drug & my brother died from drug overdose in 2003 so he wouldn’t touch anything that made him high.

  12. The damn UK government 🤡 has been the largest worldwide exporter of high THC cannabis for years… Plus, you can now be (reluctantly) prescribed high THC cannabis on the NHS for certain conditions (at extortionate rates)… Whilst they tried to prosecute someone for importing CBD hemp flower from Europe… 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

  13. I have a private prescription for medical cannabis here in the UK, which has very little to no CBD and low to high amounts of THC.

    Equally, you can get just CBD flower, too, or high amounts of CBD with very little to no THC.

    Ideally, it would be legalised, but even decriminalisation and regulation would be the logical thing to do.

    It would create change in many ways and for many areas such as finance, tax, business, and of course medicine and health. I'd absolutely love to be in a position financially to create and open a dry herb vape lounge (there are these here in the UK already) where medical patients can come and consume their medication but people who aren't can come to get help and guidance and information.

    All the "Dying towns" would benefit from this.

    But of course, who am I to even have an opinion, let alone voice it when the government knows best?………

  14. 1“For behold, in those days and at that time,
    When I bring back the captives of Judah and Jerusalem,
    2 I will also gather all nations,
    And bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat;
    And I will enter into judgment with them there
    On account of My people, My heritage Israel,
    Whom they have scattered among the nations;
    They have also divided up My land. JOEL 3:1-2

    *two part state solution is a betrayal to God. According to the Holy Bible the whole land belongs to 🤍🕊🇮🇱🤍🕊🇮🇱🤍🕊🇮🇱🟦⬜

  15. How is cannabis cbt even illegal they put it on the NHS more people will purchase via prescription reducing the drug dealers selling it then lowering prison cells due to it been put on nhs everyone wins

  16. You can get cannabis legally now for the last 6 years if you registered for medical use, and that can have a THC of 30 %+ it is needed for some medical conditions.

  17. The whole thing should be made legal. It’s only illegal because the big pharma can’t push it on humans for profit.
    There’s a saying I stick by- If it’s not from the earth- don’t put it in your body!!

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