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Access to medical cannabis for U.K. patients under threat due to Brexit Thursday, 07 January 2021
More than 40 children in the U.K. with severe forms of epilepsy are at risk of losing access to their medicine due to Brexit restrictions, reports The Times.
As of Jan. 1, British prescriptions are no longer recognized in the European Union. With many families travelling to the Netherlands to get their cannabis prescriptions filled and Dutch law requiring a valid prescription to export cannabis products they are now left scrambling to find alternatives
Hannah Deacon, the mother of Alfie Dingley, the first patient in the U.K. to receive a permanent medical cannabis licence, told The Guardian that her son’s life is at risk.