Cannabis could help dementia - ‘Beginning of a new area for clinical medicine' says doctor

Express.co.uk spoke to Dr Leon Barron, one of many in the UK, who think it is time to change our tune on medicinal cannabis. Mr Barron is one of many people wanting expansion of the availability of medicinal cannabis. A YouGov poll in 2019 found that 77 percent of respondents supported the legalisation of medicinal cannabis. When people talk about medicinal cannabis, they are most often talking about CBD; a non-psychoactive cannabinoid, one of 140 that make up the cannabis plant. Using cannabis for medicinal purposes is not something new; earlier forms of cannabis were used in multiple countries before the wide politicisation of the drug in the 20th Century.