Article cannabis oil children epilepsy medical cannabis NHS prescriptions treatment

NHS ‘Refuses’ Medical Cannabis for Children with Epilepsy

The NHS has repeatedly refused to fund medical cannabis for children with severe epilepsy, families have said. Three prescriptions are thought to have been written for “whole plant cannabis” oil since it was legalised two years ago, campaign group End …

Article cannabis oil children epilepsy medical cannabis NHS prescriptions treatment

NHS ‘Refuses’ Medical Cannabis for Children with Epilepsy

The NHS has repeatedly refused to fund medical cannabis for children with severe epilepsy, families have said. Three prescriptions are thought to have been written for “whole plant cannabis” oil since it was legalised two years ago, campaign group End …

alcohol Article children family Growing Lifestyle medical cannabis mother parent

As A Black Mother, Potential Run-ins With Police Over Cannabis Use Made Me Nervous For My Son. Now, Pot Has Cut My Heavy Drinking, And At 50, I’m Growing For My Family

I grounded my youngest son Kadim when he was in the tenth grade after finding his stash. We can laugh about it now, but my relationship with my son was severely damaged by my need to repress his pot-smoking. I was terrified of the what-ifs that could h…

alcohol Article children family Growing Lifestyle medical cannabis mother parent

As A Black Mother, Potential Run-ins With Police Over Cannabis Use Made Me Nervous For My Son. Now, Pot Has Cut My Heavy Drinking, And At 50, I’m Growing For My Family

I grounded my youngest son Kadim when he was in the tenth grade after finding his stash. We can laugh about it now, but my relationship with my son was severely damaged by my need to repress his pot-smoking. I was terrified of the what-ifs that could h…

Article child children epilepsy family father medical cannabis parent seizures treatment

Medical Cannabis Has Saved My Daughter’s Life

Last January, my daughter Jorja became the first child in the UK to be prescribed medical cannabis. She was born with a severe form of epilepsy that had left her suffering over 30 seizures a day. By the age of just one, she was on a mix of six differen…

Article cancer children family Health kids medical cannabis treatment tumour united states

How The Honigs Keep Their Son’s Story Alive To Help Kids Just Like Him

Mike, Janet and Gianna Honig stood with newly inaugurated Gov. Phil Murphy in Trenton as he announced one of his first acts as governor in January 2018: a 60-day review of the New Jersey’s strained medical marijuana program. But missing, for the first …

children edibles Lifestyle safety

What it’s actually like when a kid is accidentally dosed with edibles

It’s horrible, and it happens to more than you might think. Here’s one mom’s experience involving her three-year-old who got into cannabis-infused edibles.
The post What it’s actually like when a kid is accidentally dosed with edibles appeared fi…