The mother of a nine-year-old boy with a rare and severe form of epilepsy has told how she fears her son could die after the government announced his supply of a life-changing cannabis medicine from the Netherlands would stop because of Brexit. Photograph: Handout“I am facing the fact that my son might go into refractory epileptic seizures again which can kill people. My son is on a medicine that works for him, why would they take that away?,” she said. “Each variety of cannabis is subtly different and you can’t just swap a child from one product to another,” he said. There is a range of alternative cannabis-based medicines available to UK patients.

Source: The Guardian January 05, 2021 19:22 UTC