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Scottish Child One of Ten Wins Victory to be prescribed Medical Cannabis Oil
Scottish child, Cole Thomson, is set to be one of 10 children to receive a prescription for Epidolex Cole suffers drug-resistant epilepsy Up to 7000 children in Scotland have been diagnosed with epilepsy The East Kilbride News revealed yesterday that Cole Thomson, 6, will be one of only 10 children in Scotland to [...]
British mother fears severely epileptic son will die after hospital blocks its own consultant prescribing medicinal cannabis
Ben Griffiths, 9, suffers drug-resistant epilepsy and cerebral palsy, experiencing up to 300 seizures a day In October he was prescribed Epidiolex, but Alder Hey Children’s Hospital is preventing it being administered His mother believes the decision is putting her son at serious risk of permanent disability A British mother has condemned Alder Hey Children’s [...]
Australian researchers launch study to test cannabis as potential treatment for brain cancer
Leading Australian researchers hope to find a treatment for Glioblastoma (GBM) using medical cannabis rather than chemo or surgery GBM is the most common type of malignant brain tumour in the UK 82 participants will be given a daily dose of high THC cannabis oil over a 3 month period A leading Australian [...]
Canadian cannabis producer plans to bring down cost of CBD oil by nearly 100%
InstaDose Pharma (IDP) is one of Canada’s largest cannabis producers CBD oil currently costs £2,188 per litre IDP plan to sell their CBD oil for £80 per litre IDP own 10,000 hectares of production land in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Canadian cannabis producer, InstaDose Pharma (IDP), plan on bringing down the [...]
Irish Health Minister announces plans to allow famers to grow cannabis
Irish farmers could be soon growing cannabis for medical purpsoes Ireland’s Health Minister made comments on TV suggesting he’d prefer to grow the plants on Irish soil rather than import Medical cannabis could be legal in Ireland by the end of 2019 A bill which would legalise medical cannabis passed through the Dáil [...]
“Massive upsurge” in parents demanding access to medical cannabis for epileptic children
Over 500,000 people in the UK have epilepsy 20,000 of those are children who don’t respond to pharmaceutical medication Demand for access to medical cannabis containing THC is rising, but leading doctors claim “not enough evidence” it works Despite cannabis being legalised for medical purposes in the UK on Nov 1, parents of [...]
Irish Cannabis Refugees: Mother forced to travel to Barcelona for epileptic son’s medicinal cannabis
Michael O’Neil, 2, is diagnosed with severe, drug-resistant epilepsy, suffering up to 20 seizures a day Michael has been prescribed 10 pharmaceutical medications, all of which have failed His mother, Noreen, is now being forced to travel to Europe to obtain medical cannabis Noreen has already previously had THC medication from Barcelona confiscated [...]
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