NHS pain specialists are putting up notices in their clinics telling patients not to bother asking for medical cannabis. The…
Jan 23
Jan 11
Chronically ill Jazi Allen denied cannabis medicine because she ‘does not fit the criteria’
Chronically ill Jazi Allen has been told that she cannot be prescribed cannabis medicine because she “does not fit the…
Jan 10
Have your say – Health and Social Care Committee invites written submissions on medicinal cannabis
Parliament’s Health and Social Care Committee has asked for written submissions as the first part of a wider inquiry into…
Jan 07
MPs slam NHS as Jorja Emerson finally obtains private cannabis prescription
The all-party parliamentary group for medical cannabis has condemned the workings of the new cannabis medicine licensing regime after the…
Dec 22
Billy Caldwell ‘exiled’ in Canada by NHS refusal to prescribe cannabis medicine
Charlotte Caldwell has been forced to take her son Billy to Canada to seek medication after doctors cited strict NHS…
Dec 07
Mother says she may have to sell house to pay for epileptic daughter’s cannabis medicine
A mother of a seven-year-old girl with epilepsy says she may have to sell the family’s home to pay for…
Dec 06
Jorja Emerson faces wait of ‘weeks or months’ for cannabis prescription because ‘no UK pharmacy holds a licence to sell it’
Robin Emerson has said that it will take “weeks or months” to get hold of the cannabis medicine prescribed to…
Dec 05
Two-year-old Jorja Emerson is first UK child to get cannabis prescription – for £1,000 a month
Two-year-old Jorja Emerson, who suffers with more than 30 epileptic seizures a day, has become the first child in the…
Dec 03
Carly Barton pays private specialist £2,500 to become first UK patient to be prescribed cannabis in ‘strategic move to test the system’
Carly Barton, Deputy Director at United Patients Alliance, is thought to have become the first UK patient to be prescribed…
Oct 18
Why cannabis medicine should be available to people with autism
Dan Jose from the Cheese Board Social Cannabis Club has backed calls for cannabis medicine to be made available for…
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