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…

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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…

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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…

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Children as young as eight are being treated for aggressive behaviour with CANNABIS in medical trial that could help 25,000 young people

Children as young as eight given cannabis as part of trial to treat bad behaviour Murdoch Children's Research Institute started trial at start of year in Melbourne Study is focused…

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Just SIX patients have been prescribed medical cannabis since it was legalised in the UK

Specialist doctors have been able to prescribe it since November 1 last year But the British Paediatric Neurology Association’s guidelines advise against it Mother of well-known case Alfie Dingley called law…

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