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Desperate Mum Says She’ll Break Law To Get Epileptic Alfie, 9, Medicinal Cannabis

Hannah Deacon says it is ‘disgraceful’ that the supply of drugs helping severely epileptic Alfie will be stopped in three months – the family, from Kenilworth, Warwickshire, are considering all options. The mother of a severely epileptic boy has vowed …

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Charlie Hughes: Parents Of Boy With Epilepsy Drop Nice High Court Challenge

The parents of a three-year-old boy with severe epilepsy have dropped a legal challenge after guidelines on prescribing cannabis were ‘clarified’. Charlie Hughes went from having up to 120 seizures a day to fewer than 20, after receiving cannabis oil p…

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6 Possible Benefits Of CBD That Doctors Are Studying Right Now

6 Possible Benefits Of CBD That Doctors Are Studying Right Now
Consumers are becoming more aware of the compound’s potential health and holistic benefits.
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Netherlands To Supply Medical Cannabis Until July Despite Brexit Ban

The mother of a nine-year-old boy with a severe and rare form of epilepsy who was told Brexit would end the supply of a life-changing cannabis medicine that saved her son’s life has been given a six-month reprieve. Hannah Deacon said she was hugely gra…

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Effectively Treating Multiple Sclerosis With Cannabis Oil And Minimal Side Effects

Effectively Treating Multiple Sclerosis With Cannabis Oil And Minimal Side Effects
As many people suffering from MS turn to cannabis for treatment, research is also being done on cannabis’s safety in treating the disease.
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Mother Fears Son Could Die As Brexit Stops Medical Cannabis Supply

Government gives two weeks notice that access to epilepsy treatment for nine-year-old Alfie Dingley will end. The mother of a nine-year-old boy with a rare and severe form of epilepsy has told how she fears her son could die after the government announ…

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Cannabis Oil: ‘I’ve Spent £34,000 To Keep My Epileptic Daughter Alive’

Tannine Montgomery says she has spent £34,000 and broken the law to keep her daughter alive. Six-year-old Indie-Rose, from Clare in Suffolk, has severe epilepsy and can have up to 50 seizures a month without medical cannabis oil. Since it was legalised…

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Brexit Letter Threatens To Leave Epileptic Children Without Access To Life-Saving Medicine

Medical cannabis prescriptions can help reduce seizures in youngsters. Children with severe epilepsy are at risk of losing access to potentially life-saving medical cannabis at the end of the Brexit transition period on 31 December 2020. Campaigners sa…