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…

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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…

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Cannabis-based medicine could HALVE the number of seizures suffered by children with a rare type of epilepsy

Children with Dravet syndrome have convulsive, prolonged seizuresBut cannabidiol, the component of CBD oil, reduced seizures up to 56% It does not contain the psychoactive chemical THC, as medicinal cannabis does The…

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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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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…

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