{"id":118513,"date":"2019-11-11T14:44:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T13:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/11\/11\/the-continuing-uk-ban-on-cannabis-based-painkillers-is-absurd-and-inhumane-simon-jenkins\/"},"modified":"2019-11-11T14:44:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T13:44:28","slug":"the-continuing-uk-ban-on-cannabis-based-painkillers-is-absurd-and-inhumane-simon-jenkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=118513","title":{"rendered":"The continuing UK ban on cannabis-based painkillers is absurd and inhumane | Simon Jenkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians running scared of big pharma and the taboo around cannabis are blocking access to these vital drugsThat the government will allow a few serious epilepsy and multiple sclerosis sufferers to get cannabidiol medicine to relieve their symptoms is good news. That is all that can be said. Once more a decision emerges from the caverns of Britain\u2019s NHS that reveals the evils of a politicised, centralised, deadened health service. Related: Legalisation of cannabis in the UK would help protect its users from harm | James Nicholls Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/nov\/11\/cannabis-cannabinoids-painkiller-medicine-uk-ban\" target=\"_blank\">The continuing UK ban on cannabis-based painkillers is absurd and inhumane | Simon Jenkins<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians running scared of big pharma and the taboo around cannabis are blocking access to these vital drugsThat the government will allow a few serious epilepsy and multiple sclerosis sufferers to get cannabidiol medicine to relieve their symptoms is good news. That is all that can be said. Once more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}