The mother of a nine-year-old girl with severe epilepsy wept as she had an illegal supply of medical cannabis confiscated by customs officials after entering the UK with the potentially life-saving medication that her daughter cannot access, despite changes in the law. It follows a similar course of action by Charlotte Caldwell last year, whose audacious attempt to challenge what she said were the UK’s unjust laws helped pressure the government into legalising medical cannabis. Hannah Deacon, a campaigner and mother of Alfie Dingley, one of the first children to be prescribed medical cannabis, comforted Appleby at Southend airport. She said: “Vulnerable people are having to raise money to go abroad, and they need help from the government, rather than an insistence on randomised control trials to prove the efficacy of medical cannabis. Medicinal cannabis: how two heartbreaking cases helped change law Read more“These are not appropriate for cannabis, a plant with around 400 components.

Source: The Guardian April 06, 2019 11:25 UTC