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 …
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Yet another epileptic child has her medical cannabis seized
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 …
Prescription chaos over medical cannabis
Most people will remember heart rending stories last summer about Alfie Dingley, the seven-year-old who suffered from a rare form of epilepsy that caused him to have up to 150 seizures month. No conventional epilepsy medication worked for Alfie, but his seizures could be …