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  • Hanley widow credits cannabis oil with saving her life

    Hanley widow credits cannabis oil with saving her life0

    A grieving widow struck down with severe anxiety that left her in A&E has credited cannabis oil with saving her life. Dianne Pilling was already struggling to adjust to life without her partner of 10 years, Richard, when covid hit and caused her mental health to deteriorate further. The 61-year-old, from Hanley, was prescribed anti-depressants

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  • Cannabis rules ‘deny sick children safe medicines’

    Cannabis rules ‘deny sick children safe medicines’0

    Medical cannabis was made legal almost three years ago but is difficult to access on the NHS. It is prescribed privately but doctors have said that strict guidance by the organisation that represents child neurologists means potential recipients are missing out. Although he has done research into child neurology, Hasson is not a qualified neurologist.

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  • Bid to weed out GPs’ oil objections

    Bid to weed out GPs’ oil objections0

    The Southern Hemisphere’s largest medicinal cannabis operation is quietly being developed in a former Hobart asylum-seeker detention camp, despite frustration at the slow uptake of its medicines by doctors. Tasmanian Botanics – owned by local farmers Tony and Rodney Fehlberg and Chinese-backed Y Cannabis – is ploughing $40m into the modern cannabis growing and processing

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