Families of children with severe epilepsy have handed a petition with about 578,000 signatures to Downing Street calling for the guidance on prescribing medical cannabis to be reviewed.
The petition, organised by the End our Pain campaign, argues that patients and their families are being denied NHS prescriptions for medical cannabis because the professional guidance is too restrictive.
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