Getting a medical cannabis prescription in the UK: your questions answered

1–2 minutes

Getting a prescription

Once you know it is legal, the next question is practical: how do you actually get a prescription, and could you be someone who qualifies? This is where the path turns murky, partly because your GP cannot help, and partly because the clinics that can are also selling to you.

This is where we lay the route out plainly. How the process works, step by step, what a specialist actually weighs when deciding, why the NHS route is closed to almost everyone, and what to expect along the way. We explain the system. We do not run a clinic, rank them, or take a fee for sending you to one.

Start with the basics below.

Page note for the build: beneath this intro sits the cross-link callout to the cost-journey tool, then the article list, the three cornerstones first (“How to get a prescription”, “Who qualifies, and for what conditions?”, and “Can I get it on the NHS?”), followed by the fast-follow pieces as they go live.