Just 10 children in Scotland will be prescribed cannabis-based treatments on the NHS Up to 7,000 Scottish children suffer from epilepsy The Sunday Post has revealed that only 10 severely epileptic children in Scotland will be permitted to be prescribed medical cannabis on the NHS Health Secretary Jeanne Freeman told parents of young [...]
Jacqui Ritchie, 49, was prosecuted for growing 4 cannabis plants The mother of two claimed cannabis helped with the side-effects of chemotherapy for her rare breast cancer Jacqui was prosecuted last month and is awaiting sentencing on October 10 A cancer survivor has been prosecuted for growing four medicinal cannabis plants to help [...]
Scottish MPs to meet with medicinal cannabis activists to discuss legalisation Thousands of medicinal cannabis patients and activists are holding a protest outside Scottish Parliament tomorrow MPs from across the political spectrum will meet with protestors to discuss legalising cannabis for medicinal purposes Speakers will include SNP’s Marie Todd, the Scottish Shadow Health [...]
A new treatment derived from cannabis is to go on trial in Scotland in a bid to help sick children. Doctors have been given the go-ahead to test Epidiolex, a treatment based on cannabidiol (CBD) a non-psychoactive compound found in the cannabis plant. And medical experts are hoping the treatment – which has had success [...]
