Cainnabis in the Unitit Kinrick

Industrial hemp farm outside Southminster

Cainnabis in the Unitit Kinrick is illegal fir recreational uise an is clessified as a Cless B drog. In 2004, cainnabis wis made a Cless C drog wi less severe penalties but it wis moved back tae Cless B in 2009. Medical use o cainnabis when prescribed by a registered specialist doctor wis legalised in November 2018.

Cainnabis is widely uised as an illegal drog in the UK, while ither strains lower in THC (commonly caued hemp) hae been uised industrially fir ower a thoosan yeirs fir fibre, oil an seeds. Cainnabis hae been restrictit as a drog in the Unitit Kinrick since 1928, though its uisage as a recreational drog wis limitit until the 1960s, whan increasing popularity led tae stricter 1971 clessification.

Despite the fact that cainnabis is illegal in the UK, wi limited availability fir medical uise, the Unitit Kinrick is the warld's lairgest exporter o legal cainnabis.[1] The Unitit Kinrick is also hame tae GW Pharmaceuticals, yin o the warld's lairgest producers o medical cainnabis an the company ahind the first cainnabis derived products approved in major mairkets—Sativex an Epidiolex.