Minister ‘told mother to flout cannabis law’ for epileptic son

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Seema Kennedy denies saying bringing drug into UK was an ‘option’

A government minister appeared to suggest that the mother of a child with severe epilepsy should illegally bring medical cannabis into the country, it has emerged.

The potentially life-saving medicine is effective for a number of treatment-resistant conditions and will have been legal for a year on Friday. But, despite health secretary Matt Hancock’s assurances that it would be available on the NHS within several months, there has not been a prescription for full-extract cannabis oil on the NHS reported since its legalisation. Doctors have effectively been blocked from prescribing it due to a lack of clinical evidence.

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