London - Two doctors have volunteered to run the first official patient trials testing the therapeutic effects of cannabis, it emerged yesterday.
Dr Anita Holdcroft, from Hammersmith Hospital, London, will investigate whether the drug or its active components can relieve post-operative pain. A second trial investigating the effects of cannabis on sufferers of multiple sclerosis will be undertaken by Dr John Zajicek, of Derriford Hospital, Plymouth. Government officials and scientists at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in London met to thrash out guidelines for the trials.