Medical cannabis has hit the mainstream media again this week – catch up with the latest news from across the UK.
Cannabis has been a hot topic in the mainstream media over the past few days with stories highlighting the potential of cannabis tourism in the UK, a Cornish mother calling for NHS access for her son and the 20th anniversary of pioneer cannabis cafe Beggars. belief
Read on for updates from last week.
The mother asks that cannabis be available with a prescription
The mother of a 15-year-old boy, who has suffered from seizures since he was five months old, is calling for cannabis oil to be available via NHS prescription, Cornwall Live reports.
Caroline Gisbourne has been trying to stop her son Mitchell’s life-threatening epileptic seizure for years.
Mitchell began having seizures as a child and has tried eight different epilepsy drugs and undergone two brain surgeries, all without improvement.
In 2018, Caroline tried CBD oil and “for two years Mitchell was a different boy, going to school and living his best life,” she said.
But when the CBD oil stopped working, Caroline found it impossible to get oil with a higher level of THC by prescription.
He accepted an offer of free cannabis oil from a friend who grew the plants to ease his own pain, which saw Mitchell’s seizures drop to two or three a month.
But recently, Mitchell’s social workers, who support his autism, found out about the oil and reported Caroline to the police and was told to “wean” Mitchell off the cannabis oil. As soon as he did, his seizures started again.
The APPG for CBD products highlights cannabis tourism
The Daily Express has covered the recent report by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Cannabidiol Products which shows that younger people are increasingly taking holidays in countries where cannabis is legal.
The new study suggests that cannabis farms could become tourist attractions, like Scottish Highland whiskey distilleries.
The report used Colorado as an example of a successful cannabis tourism destination. Cannabis, which has been legal in the State since 2012, has already given a big boost to hotels and restaurants in the area.
Their report says: “The US market for cannabis tourism has developed rapidly, and half of millennials now say that access to a regulated cannabis market is important when choosing a travel destination. journey”.
According to the group’s chairmen, Tory MP Crispin Blunt and Tory peer Baroness Manzoor, the UK could sell £32 billion worth of cannabis and related products every year by becoming a “global hub”, raising £5.5 billion pounds in tax revenue each year and creating 594,000 jobs.
He said: “This broad analysis of the industry highlights significant potential opportunities, as well as some necessary early wins from smartly improved regulation. Bigger opportunities could come, such as the destruction of a vast illicit market, protecting children by reducing psychosis and crime.
“There is an economic incentive, potentially £5.5 billion in annual tax revenue, to build a well-regulated sector that makes the UK one of the few lucrative centers in the world.”
A look at the enormous legal cannabis facility
Birmingham Live took a trip to one of the country’s first licensed medical cannabis labs this week. The location of the secret facility is under wraps, and the company behind it, Celadon, recently began its first medical trial.
The product in question is designed to be used in the treatment of diseases such as epilepsy and chronic pain disorders.
Celadon CEO James Short told BlackCountryLive that he was initially skeptical about entering the world of medical cannabis. But once he learned what the product could do for patients, he knew he wanted to be involved.
He said: “I was in Canada and the US and I met a lot of patients using cannabis oil in the UK and abroad, I saw that for certain people this product actually worked.
“It was at that moment when I made the decision to get involved. I took over a facility in Birmingham in 2017, so we were lucky enough to have a facility that ticked a lot of the boxes for growing cannabis indoors.”
20 years since the pioneering Welsh cannabis cafe opened
The North Wales Daily Post published a story this week about one of the first attempts to open a cannabis cafe in the UK.
It’s been almost 20 years since Beggars Belief, a Dutch-style cannabis cafe opened in North Wales. Open for the better part of four years, the cafe opened in the modest North Wales town of Rhyl in 2001, becoming the second cannabis cafe to open in the UK after Experience Dutch in Stockport in 1999.
Unlike Dutch Experience, which openly sold cannabis to its customers, Beggars Belief operated two facilities, a cafe and a neighboring “members only” area that housed a cannabis club.
Cafe founder Jeff Ditchfield, who died in November last year, spent the last two decades of his life providing cannabis oil to patients through his organization Bud Buddies, helping thousands of people to manage diseases such as epilepsy and MS.
Derbyshire cannabis advocates face ‘stoner’ stigma.
Three women from Derbyshire who have spoken about their aim to create a community of like-minded ‘stoners’ in the UK and spread the word about how cannabis has helped them and others.
Mallymkun, 29, Mary Jane, 25, and Eden Rouge, who refer to themselves by their “stage names”, told Derbyshire Live they are “not here to tell people that ‘ go smoke some weed'”.
Instead, they want to “informally educate people” about “a plant that can be used in many different ways” with a new self-funded magazine, High Wife, which was published for the first time last week.
Mallymkun said: “I have autism and Asperger’s, it helps calm my thought processes; I have a lot of anxiety. I’ve been taking all the prescription drugs but it’s never helped. It’s always been marijuana since I was 19.
“We want to get the message out in the UK, especially because it’s still quite stigmatized for women, but it’s OK for men, like it was for tobacco. We’re trying to bring a community together. There’s nothing for stoners in Derbyshire or Nottinghamshire.
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