NHS ‘clarified’ that doctors should consider unlicensed cannabis-based products on case-by-case basis
The parents of a three-year-old with severe epilepsy have dropped a legal challenge over guidelines they said put doctors off prescribing “life-saving” medical cannabis after they were “clarified”.
Medical cannabis has been legal since 2018 but access on the NHS remains all but impossible due to resistance from doctors and officials However, a private market is growing and families continue to credit it with exponentially reducing children’s seizures.
