A mum who won a fight for her severely ill son to get medical cannabis on the NHS is being used by a “cowboy” CBD oil firm to flog its product on TikTok.

Hannah Deacon helped change the law when she secured epileptic Alfie Dingley a prescription to control life-threatening seizures.

The 11-year-old is one of only three kids with access to medical-grade cannabis oil, signed off for use by regulators after stringent checks.

But a private firm has been using pictures of the inspiring mum to sell its non-medical cannabidiol (CBD) oil on social media.

Posts on TikTok by Swiss Peak CBD feature a clip of the mum appearing on Loose Women, with the caption: “Cannabis is the only thing to help my boy.”

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