Author Interviews, Cannabis, Neurology, Pediatrics / 15.12.2021
Whole-Plant Medical Cannabis Found Beneficial in Study of Childhood Epilepsy
MedicalResearch.com Interview with:
Rayyan Raja Zafar BSc. MSc. MRSB.
Medical Research Council Doctoral Training Partnership (MRC DTP) PhD Candidate
Centre for Psychedelic research & Neuropsychopharmacology
Division of Psychiatry
Department of Brain Sciences, Faculty of Medicine
Professor David Nutt DM, FRCP, FRCPsych, FSB, FMedSci
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Brain Sciences
The Edmond J Safra Chair in Neuropsychopharmacology
Imperial College London
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study?
Response: Since 2018 medical cannabis prescription has become legal in the UK for patients to access. In spite of this legal change less than 3 NHS prescriptions have been made available and access to whole-plant medical cannabis products has been restricted largely to private prescriptions with very few clinicians prescribing such products. There has been a lot of anecdotal and real world evidence of the value of whole-plant medical cannabis in children suffering with treatment resistant epilepsy.
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