SI 2020/559 The Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) (England, Wales and Scotland) Regulations 2020

by | Jun 18, 2020 | Amendment, Drugs, Health and Safety, Occupational Health, UK

These Regulations amend the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 to provide for a specified cannabis-based medicine called Epidyolex to be placed in Schedule 5 of the Regulations. The effect of this is that the specified medicine is exempt from the prohibitions on import, export and possession under sections 3 and 5 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.

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Source: HMSO.

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