Secret £10m Cannabis Factory

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Legal cannabis: Inside the UK's first fully licensed facility

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BBC given exclusive access to 'secret' 10 m medicinal cannabis factory in the UK .

Facility is first in UK where cannabis can be grown, packaged and sold directly to pharmacies from a single location.

The BBC has been given access to the factory on the condition the location remains secret.

Growing and selling cannabis legally requires licences from the Home Office .

There are currently about 50,000 users of medicinal cannabis, receiving prescriptions from 33 private pharmacies.

Not all medicinal cannabis products are approved for use by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Specialist NHS doctors can prescribe unapproved products if they think the patient will benefit, but they have to ask NHS England to pay for individual cases.

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