Euro MPs back wider use of medical cannabis amid call for more research

The European Parliament has called on governments and the European Union to give more support to the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes.

In a wide ranging resolution adopted in Strasbourg on 13 February, MEPs set out a series of measures to promote official backing for medical cannabis and its wider use. They also insisted that a clear legal distinction be made between medical cannabis and use of the drug for recreational or other …