The National Assembly voted for the tests, already given the green light by France's ANSM medicines regulator, to be paid out of the social security budget for 2020. "I sincerely hope that the experiments can begin in the first quarter of 2020," junior health minister Christelle Dubos said after the vote. Olivier Veran, a lawmaker from President Emmanuel Macron's centrist party who proposed the budget inclusion, said the experiments could target some 3,000 sick people in France. READ ALSO ANALYSIS Why France's history means it could be a world leader in medical cannabis useThe bill was proposed by LREM MP Olivier Veran. For the purposes of the research, the cannabis can be ingested in the form of oil capsules, infusions, or drops.

Source: The Local October 25, 2019 13:30 UTC