6. Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): The legalisation of cannabis for medicinal use

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:37 pm on 17 January 2018.

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Photo of Nick Ramsay Nick Ramsay Conservative 4:37, 17 January 2018

Thanks for giving way. I also welcome the fact that the Welsh Government did make Sativex available for the treatment of medical conditions. Isn't key to this motion, though, the problem that it is not available to all those people who need it, perhaps because there are supply issues, cost issues—whatever that might be—and people are currently being criminalised because they are having to use cannabis in the raw form, as it's been referred to, because it's not available? Those people should not be criminalised, because they have an illness and they are seeking treatment that is not available to them through the NHS currently.