Six people are critically ill – with one said to be brain dead - following clinical trials in France for a new "cannabis-based painkiller".
Health minister Marisol Touraine said the volunteers had been taking oral medication in a drugs trial run by a private laboratory in Rennes when there was a "very serious accident".
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