Doctors’ OK to prescribe cannabis oil
CANNABIS oil is set to be approved for medicinal purposes following the outcry over severely epileptic Billy Caldwell, 12.
Doctors will be allowed to issue prescriptions if they feel it is the right treatment for patients.
Billy’s cannabis oil was confiscated from his mother Charlotte at Heathrow Airport in June.
It was later returned as a “medical emergency”.
Dr Owen Bowden-Jones, chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, said: “It is important that clinicians, patients and their families are confident that any prescribed medication is both safe and effective.”
The Council said there was “evidence of medicinal benefit of some products in certain circumstances”.