Epileptic boy 'in life-threatening state' after THC oil seized by UK Home Office - Sensationalist Headlines

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jun/15/mothers-plea-for-uk-to-legalise-cannabis-oil-charlotte-caldwell-billy The Home Office has said it will “carefully consider” allowing a 12-year-old boy to be prescribed cannabis oil after he was admitted to hospital with “life-threatening” seizures following the confiscation of his supply. Billy Caldwell had his anti-epileptic medicine confiscated at Heathrow airport on Monday. If the decision is made to permit him to have the treatment, it would be the first time that cannabis oil containing THC was legally prescribed in the UK since it was made illegal in 1971. Late on Friday night, Billy’s family were trying to find a clinician with knowledge of his condition to recommend the prescription of cannabis medicine. [...] On Friday afternoon, Billy was taken to Chelsea and Westminster hospital in west London in an ambulance after experiencing uncontrollable seizures. “Billy has had back-to-back seizures today,” his mother said. “On his medication, which included the vital but banned THC component, he was seizure-free for more than 300 days.” Caldwell said doctors in Canada and Northern Ireland familiar with the case had described her son’s situation as life-threatening. She said the Home Office would be held accountable if her son died. [...] Billy, who also has severe autism, cannot talk and requires 24/7 care, enjoys riding his pony Paddy, often goes swimming and attends a special needs school. Asked how Billy had handled a week of intense media attention, Caldwell said he had been “a wee bit out of sorts” and that “he knows that something is going on”. On Tuesday morning he had his first seizure in almost a year. On the same day, a group of pro-reform Tory MPs said that medicinal cannabis could be on sale within a year. But this could be too late for Billy. “The fear that Billy will die without his medication has been my overriding emotion this week,” said Caldwell. “I think that fear is keeping me going.”

“carefully consider” fuck off

To be fair, shouldn't she have checked with local laws before flying to London?

Assholes took something that demonstrably works to alleviate or outright halt his ailments, and they want to carefully consider allowing it back to him? The absolute fuck.

Weed is a dangerous drug It's not in the sense that it can hurt you at all like cigarettes will It's not something that will change you in any terrible way like overusing alcohol will it's not even that it's financially harmful, it's inexpensive and easy to afford it's a dangerous drug because outdated and arbitrary laws written in a different era can and will fuck you over royally, and employers will, even if used legally, will ditch you for nothing.

This situation has already been resolved, earlier today: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/16/billy-caldwells-mother-hopeful-of-cannabis-medicine-licence

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44507135 It's okay, all you need to do is have the Home Secretary personally intervene every time you want to use cannabinoids. The system works!

The system works for only 20 days. It's a 20 day license and it can only be administered at the hospital. They would have thrown him under the bus if it didn't get the news attention it did. In fact they still can.

They will, in about three weeks, until the family kicks up another fuss in the media.

Not CBD oil, it has THC in. Not that it should change anything in this case.

A good example of why the current government needs to be taken down to the bridge, tied up in a sack and thrown into the river. Fuck the Tories for their pointless refusal to decriminalise cannabis in spite of a petition and clear public support.

No child that needs anything derived from devil's lettuce will be permitted to survive if we have anything to do with it /s

I'll take "conflicts in interesting threads" for 200 Alex.

Convincing lawmakers and politicians of the harmlessness and usefulness of cannabis is one thing. Doing that while alcohol and pharmaceutical enterprises face competition by cannabis is a whole other ordeal.

This isn't about convincing politicians of anything; they know and are too corrupt to care. It isn't about convincing voters of your cause, either; most people are fairly agreeable outside of zealot circles like us Americans are seeing around Trump. Progress comes from teaching voters how to best use their political power.

Yep, Everything feels different after having one, mind feels numb for weeks or over a month, hard to concentrate, stressed as hell. Fuck epilepsy.

Government has announced a review: "if the review identifies significant medical and therapeutic benefits, then the intention would be to reschedule cannabis for medicinal use" https://www.gov.uk/government/news/home-office-launches-review-into-medical-use-of-cannabis