Rejected petition Allow medical cannabis patients to have open prescription

Medical cannabis patient are having to ether wait without medication or pay extra money to change the strain of their medication if the strain they are prescribed is out of stock or the alternative offered is not appropriate,

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saving us from the stress an financial hardship this is causing many people. Stop unnecessary costs. most other countries have a structure that allows a specialist doctor to give an open prescription, meaning that the patients are prescribed by strength an quantity not by strain, we should be able to choose an appropriate strain within the strengths that we are prescribed

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

We can only accept petitions about things the Government or Parliament are directly responsible for.

Decisions about what cannabis based medicinal products to prescribe to patients are a matter for individual clinicians, not the UK Government or Parliament.

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 18 March 2023
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