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Stop Denying Patients Access to Medical Cannabis on the NHS

16/09/2020 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  6 Comments

Many people will remember that eighteen months ago and after a positively heroic fight, backed by neurologist Professor Mike Barnes, Hannah Deacon won her campaign to legalise the use of medical cannabis to treat a certain number of limited conditions, including her son Alfie’s complex epilepsy. (You can read much more about it in this blog from October 2019.)

But, as I pointed out in that blog, this legalisation is, as far as other prospective users of therapeutic medical cannabis are concerned, completely useless. Thanks to the draconian limitations imposed upon the granting of prescriptions, none are granted. This means that if you, or your child, need medical cannabis to manage any of the ‘allowed’ conditions (certain forms of epilepsy, pain control and MS) the only way you can get it it is either to pay huge sums of money each month to access private prescriptions of medical cannabis or to risk importing it, illegally, from abroad. This means that not only are you committing a criminal office but that the cannabis could be impounded so you would never get to use it anyhow.

To try to bring pressure on Matt Hancock and the government, Hannah started a change.org petition, End Our Pain, and she is now asking supporters of that petition to email their MP to bring yet further pressure to bear. (This is not difficult to do. End Our Pain have provided a template so all you have to do is to click on the link on their change.org page which will take you to a page on which you can find your MP – and then enter your name and address.)

So, yes we know that that Department of Health is pre-occupied, rightly, with COVID 19 and is already spending huge sums of money on combating the virus. But, enabling NHS prescriptions for this small group of intense sufferers would cost only a few pence compared to what is being spend on pandemic measures – and would save a great deal more money spent on other, less effective and more expensive alternative treatments. And it would transform the lives of those people.

Please follow this link and email your MP.

For Professor Mike Barnes book, a Beginner’s Guide to Medical Cannabis, go here.

Category: Conventional Medicine, Food/Health Policy, Medical CannabisTag: Alfie Dingley, Beginner's Guide to Medical Cannabis, change.org, End our pain, Hannah Deacon, medical cannabis, medical cannabis for epilepsy, medical cannabis on prescription, Professor Michael Barnes

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  1. Sarah Stacey

    16/09/2020 at 19:38

    Done. Such an evil outrage.

  2. Michelle

    16/09/2020 at 21:00

    Thank you.

  3. Cressida

    17/09/2020 at 06:13

    sign and shared. thank you for blogging about this.

  4. Thomas Ogren

    17/09/2020 at 18:46

    I don’t understand how the UK is so backward on weed. For many with epilepsy, it is the ONLY thing that stops their attacks.
    For the rest of us, loads of people find that it helps them sleep longer and deeper. It has many numerous health aspects, is much safer than many prescription drugs, and gives pleasure to millions. You’d think UK citizens would demand their rights to this.

  5. Michelle

    17/09/2020 at 19:38

    So right, Tom – nor do we understand how we can be so retrogressive. So depressing – and indeed tragic for those whose lives can be transformed by the use of medical cannabis.

  6. john travis

    20/11/2020 at 23:41

    “medical cannabis” is vastly overhyped. it is not the miracle drug you all seem to think. it does not cure cancer nor is it a great painkiller – not is it the great epilepsy drug you all seem to think. it has a very small niche – that is why the NHS is being so very careful.

    a blanket provision for its use will lead to all kinds of abuse and it will be very hard to roll it back – so hold your outrage and shouting as you know not of what you speak.

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