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‘Not right, not humane’: MPs blast UK cannabis law as 12yo epileptic has first seizure in a year
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MPs have blasted UK cannabis laws as “inconceivable” amid claims that a 12-year-old boy with epilepsy is facing a “crisis” after running out of his medical supply following his GP’s refusal to renew his prescription.
A string of MPs and doctors are calling for urgent reform after Billy Caldwell suffered his first seizure in 300 days after he ran out of cannabis-oil supplies.
His “anti-epileptic medicine” was confiscated from his mother, Charlotte, when she tried to bring it through Heathrow Airport on her return from Canada.
“We already happily accept the medicinal value of other plants such as poppies which can be used to create effective opioid painkillers and morphine as well as heroin. 75 percent of the British public support medical cannabis, and the UK is ironically the world’s largest producer and exporter of legal cannabis.
“It is inconceivable that the Home Office continues to deny the medicines that [Billy] and countless other patients so desperately need yet can access in many other countries including Canada, the United States and several EU states,” Blunt told The Guardian. [ link to www.rt.com (secure)] Of course they won't legalise it - and this is the reason why... [ link to www.rt.com (secure)]
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