Hospital patients to try cannabis
13 April 2012
NHS patients are to be given cannabis pills as part of a definitive £500,000 study of the drug, it emerged today.
Led by researchers at Imperial College, London, the government-funded trials will take place on 400 randomly selected patients from 36 hospitals in England.
It is hoped the tests will help define whether cannabis can help relieve pain.
Researcher Dr Anita Holdcroft said: "We need to assess the scientific merits of some of the anecdotal evidence and we need to do this in the same way as any other experimental pain treatment."
