Grow Your Own – United Patients Alliance Campaign

Fighting for the Right to Cultivate Medical Cannabis in the UK

About the Campaign

Grow Your Own is a UPA campaign focused on legalising home cultivation of cannabis for personal medical use.

Despite cannabis being legal for prescription in the UK since 2018, thousands of patients remain:

  • Priced out of private clinics

  • Denied NHS access

  • Criminalised for self-treatment


This campaign advocates for a compassionate model that allows patients to grow their own medicine safely and legally, under a regulated system that puts patients before profit.


Know the Law

  • Cannabis is classified as a Class B drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.

  • Cultivation (even of a single plant) without a Home Office license is a criminal offence.

  • Medical cannabis is technically legal but extremely difficult to access.

UPA does not condone illegal activity. Our mission is to reform the law through public education and patient advocacy.