How will my medical cannabis usage affect my tenacy agreement?

[S Krammerhead III Jr]

[Full disclosure: I do not rent and therefore do not have first hand experience of this subject. However, I am close to an expert in this field and felt the following points would be helpful to anyone directly concerned - and besides, this topic looked lonely with zero threads ]

As per the title, I assume that a common question would be in connection with patients being evicted (worst case) because of their medical cannabis use.

Firstly, I have it on good authority that action taken against tenants who administer their properly precribed medical cannabis will be illegal discrimination. The judge is likely to take a very dim view of a landlord seeking an eviction order which cites legal medication as the cause. In short, there is no harm or breach under tenancy regulations.

However, the above assumes that the patient is keeping it legal (vaping etc) and not causing antisocial behaviour. Whether it's legal cannabis or not, it will be the behaviour of the tenant which gives grounds for a successful eviction, in the same way that the police will only have grounds for action where there is improper medical cannabis usage.

This topic probably has more to do with stigma than law.

 

[Rimmerworld]

Done right its not an issue there was a topic on this somewhere i think but what generally might happen is an illegal eviction or maybe someone not knowing thier rights and doesnt fight back. As long as a Court is involved theres no prospect of any eviction. Doing so would violate the 2010 Equality Act. And would violate Article 14 of the 1998 Human Rights act. You get a whole year to file for the Human Rights breaches too. In NI its the 1995 Disability Act.