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8 March 2024
Minutes of the Meeting held on 27 September 2023
Cross-Party Group on Medical Cannabis AGM Date and Time rd 23 September 2023 @6pm Minute Present MSPs • Tess White MSP • Oliver Mundell MSP (online) Invited guests • Professor David Nutt • Kyle Esplin • Will Ewart • Kirsty Morrison (Cancard) Non-MSP Group Members In person • Linda Hendry • Andrew Lundy (patient subgroup) • Claire Bwelec (patient subgroup) • Anna Ross (University of Edinburgh - secretary) • James Smith (Cannabis Industry Council) • Karen Gray (parent) • Jan Alexander (industry) Online • Carol Dew (patient subgroup) • Marc Landers (patient subgroup_ • David Johnstone (patient subgroup) • Hamish Clegg (Industry) 1 Apologies Pauline McNeil MSP Agenda Item 1 Update on children with epilepsy • Following Lisa and Cole story – Cole has been taken off Phenytoin • Karen and Murray – taken case to ombudsman – reduction is seizures but facing supply issues of medicinal cannabis Agenda item 2 Policing • Spoken to young man who has been strip searched twice while in possession of prescribed medicinal cannabis – had blood taken and spent a night in the cells • Another 71-year-old man – had his car stolen and the men who took it drove it into his property – when the police came, they discovered the man’s cannabis supply growing in his garden and arrested and held him in a cell – they even took his trousers as they claimed he was a suicide risk – shows police are aware they are inflicting trauma • Over half of minor offences are cannabis related • Lord Advocate starting to acknowledge nuances in the law Agenda item 3 Presentations Professor David Nutt • Establishing state of play – medicinal cannabis in the UK • Disappointing that prescription is not yet available on the Scottish NHS • Worked with patients with chronic pain, anxiety/trauma related pain, sleep disorders • In one cohort, nearly half of patients have been able to stop talking opioids • PTSD and depression also being studied • Published a paper in leading pharmaceutical journal – used Roland’s annual lecture to the Royal College of Physicians which argued for new ways of evaluating evidence as basis – utilised cannabis with a sample of children with epilepsy - found 96 percent chance of responding • Provides real world evidence, which is often claimed to be lacking • In process of setting up a legal challenge 2 • NICE guidelines are backwards • Possibility to isolate out Scottish figures to prove case?
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13 December 2023
Minutes of the meeting held on 9 November 2022
Minutes of the Cross-Party Group Aviation Group AGM and November meeting 9th November 2022 18:30 – 19:30 Committee Room 9 MSPs attendees: Paul McLellan MSP Graham Simpson MSP Sharon Dowey MSP Non-MSPs attendees: Peter Carroll – Glasgow Airport Roddie MacPhee – ABTA Scotland Janice Hogarth – SPAA Greg Maxwell – Edinburgh Airport Ali Gayward – Easyjet Thom Rawlinson - Easyjet Donna McHugh - Loganair Charandeep Singh – Scottish Chamber of Commerce Mike Tibbert - SPAA Ian Clarke - NATS Lauren Broughton – UK Inbound (via Teams) Karen Musgrave – Barrhead Travel (via Teams) Steve Kay – Airlines UK (via Teams) Alan Campbell - IAG/ British Airways (via Teams) Josh Hill – Parliamentary adviser Apologies Ross Southgate – BALPA Tracy Docherty – If Only Luke Petherbridge – ABTA Rupinder Pamme – AOA Welcome and Apologies The meeting was opened by Graham Simpson who as Co-chair would be chairing this meeting and alternating with Paul McLellan who would chair the next meeting.
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12 June 2023
Minutes of the meeting held on 23 March 2023
MSPs present (Jackie Baillie, Miles Briggs, Siobhian Brown and Bob Doris) introduced themselves.
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11 November 2022
SPCB 2022 Paper 68
Presiding Officer Alison Johnstone MSP; Convener of the Education Committee, Susan Webber MSP; and Convener of the Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee, Clare Adamson MSP will undertake an outward visit to Helsinki, Finland from 31 October to 3 November...
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30 June 2022
SPCB 2022 Paper 39
In addition to the climate emergency workshop, both Members (Claire Baker MSP and Stuart McMillan MSP) will participate in several of these workshops as well as wider conference discussions such as the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians (CWP) and Commonwealth Parliamentarians with Disabilities networks and the CPA Executive Committee (ExCo - of which Stuart McMillan MSP is a member).
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3 April 2024
Minute of the meeting held on 5 December 2023
We will distribute the finalised paper to the membership and it will be sent to MSPs in the New Year when Fulton will lodge a Motion for a debate in the parliament.
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3 April 2024
Minute of the meeting held on 5 October 2023
The following officers were elected: Jeremy Balfour MSP – convener Alex Burnett MSP - deputy convener Nick Britten - Secretariat No treasurer was elected as the group does not hold funds.
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19 January 2024
Minute of meeting held 12 September 2023
This is called Project Cezium. Conclusion – Rhoda Grant MSP Post Presentation Questions Question 1 (Rhoda Grant MSP): What program is used to gather this information?
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20 December 2023
SAZ Memorandum from Scottish Government
In August 2022, before a formal agreement was reached to support Gillian Mackay MSP’s Bill, the Scottish Government commissioned research on the impact of protests and vigils on behalf of the formal Ministerial-led working group on safe access zones.
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26 September 2023
Minute of Meeting held on 7 June 2023
Cross-Party Group on Disability Wednesday 7 June 2023 - CR 3 and Teams Minute Present MSPs Jeremy Balfour MSP (Convener) Pam Duncan-Glancy MSP (Deputy Convener) Invited guests UCAS – Ben Jordan UCAS – Nicola Turner UCAS – Emily Bennett-Cox UCAS – Georgina Marks UCAS – Catherine Hepple Non-MSP Group Members In Person:- Maggie Ellis Stan Flett Paul Fisher Cockburn Bill Scott Susan Webster Seonaid Cooke Maureen Curten On Line:- Mike Harrison Julie King Sophie Lawson Terry Robinson Linda Bamford Lynne Glen Anna Tully Lyn Pornaro Maureen Morrison Courtney Wood Carol Burt Susan Tait Miriam Nnadi 1 Derek Kelter Alison Skillin Denis R Shovlin Marg Claire Bannister Catherine Hepple Mike Harrison Rebecca Scarlett Stephanie Fraser Sophie Lawson Catherine Purves Morag Innes Apologies Alexander Stewart MSP Jackie Baillie MSP Gillian Mackay MSP Ben Hall David M Nicholson Patricia Hewitt Robin Wickes Agenda item 1 It transpired that those online could not hear at the beginning of the meeting, so the AGM did not take place and will be rescheduled.
