Reviewed Sep 2026Medical only

Cannabis in Reading

Reading's listing, Alternaleaf at Winnersh Triangle, charges £5 a month and carries a CQC Requires improvement rating after a 2025 warning notice.

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01AlternaleafReading · Medical cannabis clinic Licensed 4.6 · 7,421 on Trustpilot7.8

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The rules

Key rules in the United Kingdom

Plain-language summary. The regulator is Care Quality Commission.

Possession (no prescription)
Illegal. Cannabis is Class B, with a maximum of five years' imprisonment and/or an unlimited fine; for possession, police may instead give a warning or a penalty notice of up to £90 on the spot.
Prescribed cannabis
Legal when prescribed by a doctor on the GMC Specialist Register and dispensed by a registered pharmacy.
Home grow
Illegal. Growing counts as production of a Class B drug, with a maximum of 14 years in prison; a prescription does not permit cultivation.
Public use
Using non-prescribed cannabis anywhere is illegal, and prescribed cannabis-based products must not be smoked.
Driving
Driving while impaired is illegal everywhere in the UK. England, Scotland and Wales also have drug limits (THC: 2 µg per litre of blood in England and Wales); the limit offense does not apply to drugs taken as prescribed if you are fit to drive. Minimum penalty: a one-year ban.
CBD products
Allowed as food only if linked to an application on the FSA public list (England and Wales) and if controlled cannabinoids such as THC stay within 1 mg per container.
Daily CBD intake
FSA advice: healthy adults should have no more than 10 mg of CBD a day from food; the THC safe upper limit is about 70 µg a day for an adult (July 2025).
Age
No statutory minimum age for a specialist prescription (NHS use includes children with rare epilepsies), but the private clinics in our directory take adults only (18+, or 21+ at Integro). The FSA advises under-18s not to take CBD.

Summary, not legal advice — rules change; check local law. Last reviewed Sep 2026.

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How cannabis is sold in Reading

Three figures frame Reading's one listing, an online clinic on the Winnersh Triangle business park.

£5

monthly membership at Alternaleaf, as listed

Verdex register, September 2026

10 Sep 2025

date the CQC issued a warning notice after a July 2025 inspection

CQC, as reported by Cannabis Health News

4 of 5

key questions rated Requires improvement; responsive is rated Good

CQC ratings, as of September 2026

What inspectors found

The CQC said medicines were not always prescribed in line with legislation or best practice, that patients were encouraged to pick products from a wide range with no guidance on what suited them, and that staff described workloads as unmanageable or unsafe. The CQC report was published in February 2026, according to Cannabis Health News. The provider, Montu Group UK, reports 87% patient satisfaction and over 4,000 five-star Trustpilot ratings. Both can be true, so read the CQC page and the reviews together, and note the date of each.

What the address does and does not mean

Alternaleaf lists 140 Wharfedale Road, Winnersh Triangle, near Reading, and Verdex gives it 7.8. Care is delivered online, so nobody attends the park. The clinic comparison explains how to weigh a rating against price, and the England hub lists alternatives.