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MP remembers epileptic son as he makes emotional case for access to cannabis oil
A Labour MP was on the verge of tears as he said he wished he had had “the courage” to investigate whether medical cannabis could have saved his son, who…
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…
Baby given cannabis-based drug in medical trials at Norfolk
A newborn baby has become the first to get a cannabis-derived medicine being trialled to help those with a condition that can lead to brain damage. Oscar Parodi was born…
CBD vs. THC: What’s the difference?
Cannabis consumers have long prized potency (a high THC content) as one of the main factors that makes a particular strain more desirable. Though traditional demand for THC has caused…
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…
London medical cannabis company fulfill their first UK prescription
Medical cannabis trailblazers Cannaray have just fulfilled their first UK prescription. The company partnered up with Canadian cannabis company Aphria Inc, to treat Jorja Emerson, a three-year-old girl suffering from a severe…
Cannabis CAN keep you calm, study suggests: Scientists discover how weed short-circuits brain connections linked to stress and anxiety disorders
Many marijuana users say marijuana relaxes them, but science on this is unclearA compound called 2-AG, found in weed and in the brain, keeps a healthy separation between two brain…
More than ONE MILLION Britons ‘are illegally using cannabis to treat illnesses including epilepsy, arthritis and anxiety’
Around half of the 1.4million users are thought to use cannabis every day The total black market spend is estimated to be around £2.6billion a year Users range across all ages, social…
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…
Two medicinal cannabis products approved for use in Ireland
TWO MEDICINAL CANNABIS products have been approved and registered for use in Ireland under the new Medical Cannabis Access Programme. The two products are Aurora High CBD Oil Drops and CannEpil.…
Medicinal cannabis will be given to 20,000 British patients in first major trial of drug’s impact – a year after it was made legal on the NHS
Project, named Twenty21, was launched yesterday and will run until end of 2021To test impact on chronic pain, MS, epilepsy, PTSD, Tourette's, anxiety, addictionMedical marijuana been legal since last November…
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…
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…
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…
European panel okays GW Pharma cannabis drug for epilepsy
GW Pharmaceuticals' marijuana-based treatment Epidyolex has won a positive recommendation for marketing approval from a European Medicines Agency (EMA) panel on Friday for use as an additional treatment for two…
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…
GW Pharma’s cannabis-based epilepsy drug meets main goal in a late-stage trial
May 6 (Reuters) - GW Pharmaceuticals Plc said on Monday its drug Epidiolex was successful in treating seizures in patients with a rare form of childhood epilepsy called tuberous sclerosis…
‘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…