Health and Social Care Minister David Ashford Click to buy photos from our newspaper ➔ Printed and digital download photos available Tynwald has given the go-ahead for the job of regulating the proposed medicinal cannabis export industry to be handed to the Gambling Supervision Commission. Rules for the regime were given the green light after it was decided the Gambling Supervision Commission would be the ideal interim body, rather than the Department of Health and Social Care. However, medicinal products issued by pharmacists here are still likely to remain under the remit of the DHSC. Health Minister David Ashford sought permission to transfer some of his department’s functions under the Misuse of Drugs Act to the GSC.