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Medical cannabis: campaigner calls on home secretary to deliver on access promises

BMJ 2020; 369 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m2508 (Published 22 June 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;369:m2508
  1. Jacqui Wise
  1. London

The mother of Alfie Dingley has called on the home secretary to finally deliver appropriate access to medical cannabis on the NHS, saying that the covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the situation for many families.

Dingley has intractable epilepsy and made headlines after he was denied cannabis treatment in the UK that had been available to him in …

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