Campaigners Call for More Rare Epilepsy Patients to Be Given Cannabis Oil Drug

A cross-party group of MPs has written to Health Secretary Matt Hancock demanding action. Health Secretary Matt Hancock was tonight urged to tear up red tape campaigners say is hampering prescriptions of medical cannabis for children with rare epilepsy. There have been no new NHS prescriptions for full-extract cannabis oil since the medicinal use of the drug was legalised more than 18 months ago, it emerged this month. Experts say strict guidelines make it difficult…

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Author: Ben Glaze, Mirror