Brother of epileptic boy delivers letter to PM urging cannabis treatment support
Thomas, right, went to No 10 Downing Street today with his mum Ilmarie Braun, left, to deliver a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, asking him to help his brother…
Parents of baby girl suffering with horrendous seizures so painful doctors wanted to put her in a coma say CANNABIS is saving her life
Baby Luella suffers from a very rare type of epilepsy called West syndromeThe 10-month-old has hundreds of seizures a day, impacting her development Doctors were wanting to remove half her brain…
Families press Government for medical cannabis for severely epileptic children
Families with severely epileptic children say they continue to be denied NHS prescriptions for medical cannabis despite a law change in 2018. Parents claim they are having to pay more…
Cannabis medicine fast-tracked for NHS
NHS England has announced that Epidyolex will now be available on prescription from January 6th. Epidyolex is a CBD-based oral solution used to treat rare forms of treatment-resistant childhood epilepsy, Dravet syndrome…
Hope for dozens of families as country’s first medical cannabis charity plans to offer grants to epilepsy and MS patients forking out for private prescriptions
Sapphire Medical Foundation aims to dish out grants to 20 patients next yearThey will target poor families unable to afford expensive private prescriptionsIt will heap pressure on government as drugs still…
Medicinal cannabis expands for kids in Vic
A Victorian teenager who spent the past seven years battling up to 50 epileptic seizures a day hasn't had any episodes since taking medical cannabis. Madison Williamson, 15, has been…
Hope for hundreds of families seeking medicinal cannabis in the UK as first private clinic in London is approved to dish out prescriptions
Medical cannabis to be prescribed legally for first time at clinic in central LondonCare Quality Commission has given the go ahead to the Sapphire Medical ClinicHas 50-plus waiting list, with…
CBD-based epilepsy drug Epidyolex has finally been approved for use in the UK
<img src="https://www.theextract.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Epidyolex-min.jpg" width="800" height="360" class="alignnone size-medium"> The drug, which became the first CBD-based medication approved for use by the FDA in the United States (under the name Epidiolex), treats two…
Desperate mother fears her 17-year-old son will die because the family cannot continue to spend £4,000 a month on cannabis oil that stops him having hundreds of seizures every day
Bailey Williams, 17, from Cardiff, has suffered from epilepsy since he was twoTeenager can have hundreds of seizures a day and turn blue or drop to the floorHe is now…
Alfie Dingley, 7, had 75 seizures a day until he started taking cannabis oil. One year after the law was changed to help him, the jury is still out on whether it really works
Alfie Dingley, 7, suffered up to 75 seizures a day before taking cannabis oil dropsHe was hospitalised almost once a week before he began his cannabis treatmentThe government changed the…
‘I smuggled cannabis oil to help my son’
Former police officer Lisa Quarrell never imagined she would break the law - but this year she began smuggling a cannabis product into Scotland. Lisa, from East Kilbride, travelled to…
Epileptic girl, whose family couldn’t get medicinal cannabis on the NHS is ‘saved’ after Canadian firm gives her the drug for free
Jorja Emerson, from County Down in Northern Ireland, is given cannabis oil Her father, Robin, said a pharmaceutical firm is doing what the NHS should do He said the free…