The UK government has granted a license to use medical cannabis to another child with epilepsy. Alfie Dingley, a six-year-old from Kenilworth, England will now be able to use a medical marijuana therapy to treat his condition. The news comes after another UK boy, Billy Caldwell, received a similar license over the weekend. Home Secretary [...]
Billy Caldwell has been discharged from the hospital after resuming treatment with medicinal cannabis oil. The U.K. boy made international headlines after border officials confiscated his medicine at Heathrow Airport last week. The main active ingredient of the medication is CBD, but it also has enough THC to make it a Schedule 1 controlled substance. [...]
Paramedics have rushed young Billy Caldwell to the hospital after the boy suffered a series of epileptic seizures. British media is reporting that rescue medications failed to bring 12-year-old Billy out of “a massive intractable epileptic seizure.” First responders transported Billy to St. Mary’s Hospital in Paddington on Thursday night. He is now unconscious and fighting [...]
Billy Caldwell, a 12-year-old U.K. boy with epilepsy, has had his first seizure in months last night, his mother reports. The seizure comes just hours after U.K. border officials confiscated Billy’s medicinal cannabis oil at Heathrow Airport yesterday. The main active ingredient of the cannabis oil medication that Billy uses is CBD. But it also has [...]
U.K. border security officials at Heathrow Airport have seized CBD oil intended for a 12-year-old epilepsy patient. Charlotte Caldwell, the mother of Billy Caldwell, told reporters that the British government had “most likely signed my son’s death warrant.” Young Billy has a severe form of epilepsy that causes up to 100 seizures per day. He [...]
Advocates for cannabis legalization and decriminalization frequently frame their case as a social justice issue. Ending racially disparate mass incarceration, for example, has become a refrain among pro-cannabis progressives in the United States. But across the pond, some British doctors are adopting a different tact. Instead of drawing attention to the criminal injustice of the [...]
While the stigma surrounding weed has certainly decreased, there are still, obviously, a lot of exceptions to the current zeitgeist. The UK is perhaps the biggest example of a country that remains behind the eightball in terms of marijuana acceptance. Today, however, they might have taken ‘unacceptance’ to a whole different level, as UK police suggest prosecution [...]
Those using social media for illicit activities might want to reconsider. Police in the United Kingdon just used a photo posted on WhatsApp to bust a drug dealer. The BBC is reporting that police in the UK used a photograph from a mobile phone to secure 11 convictions. The case began with a tip that people [...]
Actress Meghan Markle is set to tie the knot with Prince Harry on May 19th, and by all accounts, it appears their wedding ceremony is poised to be quite the extravagant affair. This is not surprising, considering it is a royal wedding, however, there is at least one unofficial addition to the ceremony that is [...]
When it comes down to it, there are simply two types of cannabis users in today’s ever-expanding weed community: responsible users and irresponsible users. While most of us can be categorized under the former, there still remains a fair share of people who continue to misuse the plant and make it hard for the burgeoning cannabis [...]
