The Minister responsible for Health, Yannick Neuder, declared on Wednesday that he wanted to “study” the path of medical cannabis in France, while saying he was opposed to legalization of its recreational use.
The year 2025 was to see the arrival in France of cannabis-based treatments for therapeutic purposes, following a period of experimentation carried out with a few thousand patients, which ended on December 31, 2024.
But uncertainty still reigns over their future, pending a decision from the government.
Patients who are currently in the experiment will be able, until June 30, “to continue to take it while waiting to reorganize, to consult to find out if we are creating a network around this new source of drugs”, recalled Mr. Neuder.
“I think we need to study this route of therapeutic cannabis because it covers a field of stubborn pain which is often not relieved by other medications”, as in “cancerology, stiffness, facial pain”, he said. detailed the minister after a visit to the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris.
On the other hand, “I am still against recreational cannabis,” he recalled, deeming it possible to achieve a “very balanced position” on the subject.
The new Minister of Health also indicated that he had started “Dry January”, a movement which invites people not to drink alcohol for a month, by drinking “only sparkling water” in the plane which brought him back to mainland France after his trip to Mayotte.
LR MP for Isère, the cardiologist was criticized in the fall for comments deemed complacent towards wine growers, after opposing a general increase in taxes on alcohol.
published on January 1 at 12:37 p.m., AFP
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