Secretary of Health Matt Hancock is furious with U.K. physicians, whom he says are failing to prescribe cannabis to children with serious illnesses who could potentially benefit from the drug, pointing to the shortfall as an “immense frustration.”
Hancock made the comments after nine-year-old Teagan Appleby, who suffers from approximately 300 seizures daily, had her three-month supply of medical cannabis confiscated by the Border Force at Southend Airport last week while travelling home from the Netherlands with her mother, Emma.“We changed the law to make sure medicinal cannabis is available on a mainstream basis,” Hancock said this week in the House of Commons. “When that’s the case we need clinical sign-off.
Hancock also said that U.K. physicians were writing far fewer prescriptions for medical cannabis than he had anticipated, although medics must make their own decisions when prescribing medication. Since legalizing medical cannabis, the U.K. has been plagued with allegations that the drug is nearly impossible to access.Although the medical community seems wary as a whole, the U.K. recently opened its first cannabis clinic, but it hasn’t approved accessibility for many Brits—the private appointments cost around £200, and prescriptions run as high as £700.
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TerryLake16 cannabis? not CBD alone but THC as well? knowing the risks to the developing brain? without knowing the risk of cancer? hmm. Wonder why he would do that? BigPharma
Matt Hancock isn’t a physician. He’s a failure that got into government through knowing the right people and helped ruin the UK.
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