Our free email newsletter sends you the biggest headlines from news, sport and showbiz Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailA teenager who once had 300 seizures a day has become the first person in the UK to be treated with NHS-funded medical cannabis. Email webnews@mirror.co.uk to tell your story(Image: Reuters)“There were times I feared we’d just keel over and die. "But we took one day at a time.”Billy, who has epilepsy, started cannabis oil treatment in the US in 2016. In June 2018, officials at Heathrow seized privately prescribed cannabis he and his mum were bringing back from Canada. The mum, of Castlederg, Co Tyrone, explained: “The law was written in such a way that doctors feared putting their name to prescriptions.

Source: Daily Mirror October 30, 2020 20:32 UTC