Details of GW Pharmaceuticals licence for production of cannabis

Peter Reynolds made this Freedom of Information request to Home Office This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.

The request was refused by Home Office.

Dear Home Office,

Under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, the Home Secretary is able to issue licences covering production, possession and supply of any controlled drug. GW Pharmaceuticals has been granted such licences in relation to cannabis. I hereby request that a copy of all said licences relating to GW Pharmaceuticals and cannabis, and all secondary requirements such as fees, terms and conditions etc., be provided."

Yours faithfully,

Peter Reynolds

FOI Responses, Home Office

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Please find attached our response to your FOI Request.

Home Office
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London, SW1P 4DF

 

 

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Dear Home Office,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Home Office's handling of my FOI request 'Details of GW Pharmaceuticals licence for production of cannabis'.

This request is refused on two grounds

1. It may damage GW Pharma's commercial interests.

This is an absurd excuse. GW has already been granted what is almost certainly an unlawful monopoly. The relationship between the Home Office and GW is self-evidently corrupt and improper. How does this square with the anti-monopoly provisions of the Enterprise Act 2002? What opportunities exist for other businesses to grow cannabis for medicine? This licence is issued by a public authority and its terms and conditions (redacted in part if necessary) should be freely available to public scrutiny.

2. It may make GW potential targets of criminal activity.

Again, an absurd excuse. The location of GW's facilities are already public knowledge - at it's headquarters in Porton Down, Wiltshire and at the Kent Science Park, Sittingbourne,.

This is nothing but an excuse to prevent public scrutiny and amounts to an unlawful breach of the FOI Act 2000.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/de...

Yours faithfully,

Peter Reynolds

FOI Responses, Home Office

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Mr Reynolds

Please find attached a response to  your request for an internal review

 

 

Diana Pottinger

Information Access Team

Ground Floor Seacole

2 Marsham Street

London

SW1P 4DW

 

 

 

 

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Laurel Bush left an annotation ()

See also http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/is...

I have started to see the Home Office as party to an illegal plot to produce and supply cannabis while pretending it is something else, and I intend to raise the matter with my chief constable

Laurel Bush left an annotation ()

See also ‘Is Sativex cannabis?’ at http://www.spanglefish.com/laurelbush/in... and ‘Home Secretary in criminal drug conspiracy?’ at http://www.spanglefish.com/laurelbush/in...

Laurel Bush left an annotation ()

See also ‘Sativex is 25:27 cannabis (CBD:THC)’ at
http://www.spanglefish.com/laurelbush/in...