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Donna Kinnair, director of nursing, policy and practice at the Royal College of Nursing, said: "This is a very welcome move by the home secretary.
"RCN members voted overwhelmingly at our annual congress in May to lobby the governments across the UK to decriminalise cannabis for medicinal use, because nurses were worried that vulnerable patients are currently being forced to self-medicate or medicate their children from sources that aren't necessarily safe."