Smoking is bad for you. You don't have to take my word for that. Just look a package of cigarettes and see what it says. We don't regard smoking as an acceptable method of delivery for a medicine.

A great number of multiple sclerosis sufferers have experimented, sometimes illegally, with herbal marijuana in the past. We are confident that many patients will prefer a pharmaceutical or a scientific solution to the problem rather than crude herbal marijuana.

If you get your approval in one EU country then you hit the ground running in other EU countries.