UK Medical Cannabis White Paper 2025
UK Medical Cannabis White Paper 2025
Having legalised the use of cannabis as an unlicensed medical treatment in 2018, the UK was initially slow to facilitate patient access to treatment. This has changed in recent years, and there is now an active patient base of approximately 50,000 - 60,000 in the UK, with an estimated 80,000 individuals expected to receive treatment with medical cannabis throughout 2025.
The UK is already the second-largest medical cannabis market in Europe, estimated to surpass €269 million in sales in 2025.
Discounting the US (where cannabis markets are closed on an interstate basis as well as to other countries), the UK ranks as the fifth-largest medical cannabis market globally, after Germany, Australia, Israel, and Canada. At the current rate of growth, annual medical cannabis sales in the UK will outstrip those of Israel and Canada in 2026.
Available data on the number of medical cannabis items prescribed per month in the UK shows an increase month by month since January 2022. There is no indication that this rate of growth will slow down in the short to medium-term future.
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