Correspondence

Advice on Epidyolex

Letter to the Home Office regarding the appropriate Schedule for the cannabis-based product for medicinal use, Epidyolex, under the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001.

• From: Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
• Published: 29 January 2020

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Advice on Epidyolex (accessible version)

Advice on Epidyolex

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The ACMD Chair, Professor Owen Bowden-Jones, and the ACMD’s Technical Committee Chair, Professor Roger Knaggs, write to the Minister of State for Crime, Policing and the Fire Service. They recommend that it would be most appropriate for Epidyolex, a cannabis-based product for medicinal use (CBPM), to be placed in Schedule 5 under the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001.

You can read the letter from the from the Minister of State for Fire and Policing to the ACMD, in response to the recommendation to Schedule Epidyolex.

Published 29 January 2020