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Know your rights

A one-page reference to keep with you or print. Fill in your clinic details, then print it or save it as a PDF. It sets out your rights; it does not prove your prescription. Your labelled medicine does that.

Medical cannabis: my rights

I am a lawful medical cannabis patient in the UK.

My proof is my medicine in its original packaging with the dispensing label. This card is not proof of a prescription.

If police stop me

  • I stay calm and say I am a prescribed patient.
  • I show my medicine in its original, labelled packaging.
  • National police guidance (made public January 2026) asks officers to treat patients first and to check with my clinic.
  • There is no legal requirement to carry a prescriber letter, but it helps.

If I am driving

  • I have a medical defence if my medicine is prescribed, taken as directed, and I am not impaired.
  • I never drive if impaired. That is a separate offence the defence does not cover.
  • I do not refuse a police sample. Refusing is a separate offence.
  • I carry my prescription and packaging, and I tell the DVLA if my condition or medicine affects my driving.

Information only, not legal or medical advice. Based on UK law and College of Policing (NPCC and APCDLO) guidance made public January 2026. From The Plain Line, June 2026.

Want the full picture?

Read the Your rights guide