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Why has the law changed?The decision has come after the cases of two sick children helped to garner unprecedented public support for medicinal cannabis.The cases of Alfie Dingley and Billy Caldwell, who have severe epilepsy, inspired sympathetic headlines in sectors of the press traditionally hostile to cannabis, after it emerged that each had been successfully treated with cannabis oil. Their families and doctors said the drug had drastically reduced their numbers of seizures each day. Billy’s case soared to the top of the news agenda after his mother, Charlotte, flew to Canada to get a new supply of cannabis oil for her son, which was then seized at customs on her return. Billy’s health deteriorated and within days he was taken to hospital suffering “life-threatening” seizures, prompting the Home Office to grant him an exceptional licence to use the cannabis oil medicine. Learn More https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jul/26/medicinal- https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jul/ |
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