Doctors in Commons rally to overturn ban on medicinal cannabis

Group of MPs to campaign on issue following recent case of six-year-old Alfie Dingley

Doctors in the House of Commons are to lead a campaign to change the law banning the medicinal use of cannabis, as a new all-party parliamentary group (APPG) forms to campaign for the issue.

Dan Poulter, a former health minister who still works part-time as a GP, said he had already signed up fellow Conservative Andrew Murrison, Labour's Paul Williams, and Philippa Whitford of the Scottish National party - four of the Commons' nine medical doctors.