“It would be absurd not to ask the question and it is in this spirit that we want to work with the project leaders,” said Prime Minister Friday.
Therapeutic cannabis soon authorized in France? During a trip to the Creuse, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said Friday that it would be “absurd” to refrain from studying the possibilities of therapeutic cannabis. A crop of this plant for medical purposes is part of the development projects planned in this department.
“There are many countries working on this, many countries that allow it, it would be absurd not to ask the question and it is in this spirit that we want to work with the project leaders”, he explained to the press. Today, 21 countries in the European Union allow cannabis for therapeutic use, but not France.
Cannabis flowers containing only cannabidiol, without THC, in a Parisian shop.
“What the proponents of this project said was that we should not refrain from imagining the use for therapeutic purposes of the molecules that are contained by this plant,” continued Édouard Philippe.
“Experiment in a strict and framed way”
“So obviously, we must be able to think about innovating, experimenting by doing it in a very framed way. This is not at all to jeopardize public health (…) We want to do things in a very framed manner “, he insisted,” you think that the opinion of the highest authorities who supervise the use of drugs is essential “.
This project of therapeutic cannabis, as one of the axes of development of one of the poorest departments of France, is led by Eric Corréia, president of Grand Guéret. This nurse anesthetist, trained in the management of pain, rallied other local elected officials to his cause.
Pdt Agglo Grand Guéret reiterates his request to the Prime Minister: “to experiment with therapeutic cannabis, we are ready, remains to have the legal authorizations Mr Prime Minister”
Edouard Philippe was in Creuse to sign with the local elected officials a plan for the revitalization of the Creuse employment basin, initiated by Emmanuel Macron in October 2017. This “particular plan for the Creuse” thus includes the possibility of a “creation a therapeutic hemp industry “.
In December 2018, the French Medicines Agency (ANSM) announced that it would like to see a trial of therapeutic cannabis put in place before the end of 2019, under conditions to be defined.
