Correction: So near yet so far: why won’t the UK prescribe medical cannabis? ============================================================================== Nutt D, Bazire S, Phillips LD, *et al*. So near yet so far: why won’t the UK prescribe medical cannabis? *BMJ Open* 2020;10:e038687. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2020-038687 This article was previously published with an error. The competing interests statement has been updated to: DN is Chair of the charity Drug Science and AKS is Head of Research of Drug Science. Drug Science receives an unrestricted educational grant from a consortium of medical cannabis companies to further its mission, that is the pursuit of an unbiased and scientific assessment of drugs regardless of their regulatory class. All Drug Science committee members, including the Chair, are unpaid by Drug Science for their effort and commitment to this organisation. AKS is scientific advisor to the Primary Care Cannabis Network, and an executive member of the Cannabis Industry Council, both unpaid roles. None of the authors would benefit from the wider prescription of medical cannabis in any form. [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).