Patients and families ‘denied access’ to medicinal cannabis despite 2018 law change | ITV News
Patients and families ‘denied access’ to medicinal cannabis despite 2018 law change | ITV News
Within two weeks of taking medical cannabis, Fallon Levy’s life was transformed.
The 30-year-old had been suffering 200 seizures a month as a result of a severe form of epilepsy.
For decades the seizures, combined with the powerful epilepsy medicine she had been prescribed, meant it was hard for her to talk, chew food and even sit in a chair.
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Ahh yes those "long term randomised trials" that were needed for the vaccines…
The uk is the largest supplier of medical cannabis in the world yet its illegal for us in this country 🤡 and told " No medical value "
Tell her to start buying it from a street dealer or grow it herself
What if Gandhi was alive today and was a passionate stoner? What would stoner Gandhi do to change the law?
Yeap it’s super expensive, you get access via ltd clinics that extort you 75-150£ for phone conv on top of the prescription… When we could grow our own medicine
Sick!
So the government is growing Cannabis and the public cannot disgraceful!
This is so sad I hope the best for her & I hope they legalise it
The system is fake. Just grow that vegetable yourselves. It’s food.
I’m smoking on some agent x looking at my weed plants love Tucson
So it can take decades to assess its safety and efficacy?
We just going to ignore the thousands of years of its well documented use as a medicine and therapeutic then?
The ol’ jibby-jabby was brand new and experimental and it was pushed on everyone without a shred of longterm data (and most of us know by now how that worked out), but the herb?
……Can’t risk that, it might turn out to be dangerous, we simply don’t have enough longterm data,……..
Fkn idiots.
Worse than that, they think WE’RE the fkn idiots.
Uk always far behind compare to most countries in Europe continent, even Germany legalised it lol !
The state of the world! Just legalise it for goodness sake 😢
We have medicinal weed in nz anyone with serious medical conditions can get it here i take cbd and use buds everyday
Pots everywhere I can go to any town and find weed… Sad ppl aren’t allowed to buy or grow it everywhere
Lots of cbd 👌 👀💯
if i was her… id be using that house money to buy a house somewhere else in the world where people are civilized and grow your own… 24 grand a yr is unsustainable…
Disgraceful
Exclude the NHS and all other third parties, we don’t care that you can’t make money off us! Just decriminalise the plant!
Grow your own its very cost efective
If my prescription was free may have had my own home buy now
I went private, I’m kinda bankrupt paying for it, but I can live my normal life again ❤️
legalization without home grow is just the government becoming evil drug cartels. if people could home grow the community would get together and make this girl’s medicine for her for dirt cheap or for free.
It’s straight out wrong this is, it’s the government’s plan to make money from it, cos if dealers can make then they want to make
2000 a month? What dispenser’s are you using? I get 60g a month from as little as £300 a month via curaleaf. Could pay slightly more fornmore expensive stuff but £2000 a month?? Are you throwing it out the window?
We can get prescriptions for opioids that can be very addictive that can contain herion codeine, tramadol, but yet they won’t prescribe cannabis for for patients who need it to help pain so what’s the difference?
Are they serious?
"Access" to weed in the UK is, ahem, hardly challenging…
Its crazy they rather have me taking morphine fir my constant pain
People are getting psychosis and mental health issues from smoking black market cannabis that is unregulated because of the government and can be laced or spray with synthetic cannabinoids and god knows what else
Government out scamming it’s citizens again 😊
The solution is simple: allow a person to get a licence to grow but not sell to sell. You need a licence to do so. If you are growing or selling without a licence, then you are guilty of trafficking. It’s not perfect, but unless they don’t get their grubby hands on making a bit of money on the side, they’ll never do anything to help those who need help. Also, it should be made law that due to the licence fee, there could never be a charge of VAT for 500 years. (2524)
However, the licences are for the number of plants a person has, e.g., 3 plants £30 per year, and so on. Therefore, a person with acres of plants has a lot of money to pay each year. Greed is not good.
Decriminalise it. Let people grow their own.
Legalisation is win win.
Win for patients like me to grow at home very cheap and win for the government in taxation from dispensaries, cafe, shops etc….
yet they allowed a vax after no tests????
that’s because the pharmaceutical company wants you on there filthy pills instead of natural good medication. they are hungry for your health and money. just buy it off someone nice enough to sell you it. screw the law!!
legalize it federally period. this helps people
Ireland and UK drag you to court for 2 quids worth. Jokers.
Unforgivable! The UK government and current legal system are an international joke.
22nd May 2024, 4 weeks this has been online and over 20,000 views im sure the numbers speak for itself weed needs to be legalized enough is enough🤞🇬🇧
I hop one day this medication is recognised 🎉
As a patient here in NZ it is so easy to obtain and no where near those prices in UK. 2k a month is a crime in itself.
Hypocrisy is in this uk government,they can grow and distribute in around the continent,but not in its own country to help people with its benefits,simple,,,,,legalise the beneficial plant,help others and your pockets in making ridiculous amount of revenue.
If not a single gram is available who they growing it for 🤔🤔🤔
There’s no way she’s spending £2000 a month I get 3oz a month of flower and I pay around £900 a month
It’s insane that people are not permitted to do as they wish with their own bodies, provided it harms no-one else. Surely this is a basic human freedom being denied.
Its a plant that kills no one. I just got 18 month probation for growing a small personal crop to treat my PTSD for god sake its a plant banned to stop hippies protesting against war in the 60’s
Its a plant ffs….carzy world we live in being controlled all our lives by people we dont even know.ridiculous
It’s getting ridiculous now! How is this still a debate?
Legalize it for christ sake
Even tax it
People have asked this for ages
Can the gov actually do there job for once
Unless it’s a covid vaccine then all the rules go out the window