UK government to review medicinal cannabis laws | New Scientist
UK government to review medicinal cannabis laws | New Scientist
The government came under pressure to review the law after cannabis oil medication was confiscated at Heathrow airport last week from the mother of a 12-year-old boy with severe epilepsy. The oil had reportedly controlled Billy Caldwell’s seizures for 300 days, but after his supply was taken away, he had two seizures and was admitted to hospital. On Monday, Prime Minister Theresa May played down the prospect of relaxing criminal penalties for cannabis, saying the rules are in place because cannabis impacts people’s lives. But former Conservative Party leader William Hague joined calls for a change in the law, for both medicinal and recreational cannabis. “This battle is effectively over,” he wrote in The Daily Telegraph.
The government came under pressure to review the law after cannabis oil medication was confiscated at Heathrow airport last week from the mother of a 12-year-old boy with severe epilepsy. The oil had reportedly controlled Billy Caldwell’s seizures for 300 days, but after his supply was taken away, he had two seizures and was admitted to hospital. On Monday, Prime Minister Theresa May played down the prospect of relaxing criminal penalties for cannabis, saying the rules are in place because cannabis impacts people’s lives. But former Conservative Party leader William Hague joined calls for a change in the law, for both medicinal and recreational cannabis. “This battle is effectively over,” he wrote in The Daily Telegraph.
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