In the summer of 2018, Charlotte Caldwell was stopped at Heathrow airport for attempting to bring a full-extract cannabis oil into the UK. The oil was intended for her son, Billy, who has a rare form of epilepsy called Dravet syndrome. But because all use of full-extract cannabis oils was illegal in the UK at the time, Caldwell’s oil was confiscated when she tried to declare it. Billy’s seizures worsened and he was eventually hospitalized, triggering widespread calls for him to be allowed access to the drug. Faced with this rising tide of public opinion in favour of cannabis-based medical products, the UK government changed…
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