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Beginner's Guide to Medical Cannabis

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 …

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

NICE dashes hopes of pain, MS and epilepsy sufferers yet again

13/08/2019 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

Last week (8th August) NICE published their latest thoughts, based on an NHS England review, on prescribing medical cannabis. And much to the disappointment, anger and frustration of campaigners the only group of sufferers for whom they approved the prescribing of medical …

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Yet another epileptic child has her medical cannabis seized

28/07/2019 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  2 Comments

Reported in today's Guardian - yet another child, five-year-old Indie-Rose Clarry, has had her medical cannabis seized by border guards at Stansted. Although Indie-Rose has a private prescription for the medicine written by her UK doctor to help control her Dravet syndrome, it is …

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