‘Farmisa falsehope ofourtrue progress’
Scotland is set to get its first legal cannabis farm with planning permission being granted for a large purpose-built greenhouse in Langholm.
Agricultural entrepreneurs William and Neil Ewart were given the okay to produce medical cannabis products containing THC.
All the forms of medicinal cannabis currently prescribed by doctors here are imported because it has been illegal to grow the drug here.
But changes in UK law in November 2018 recognised evidence by scientists that medicinal cannabis benefits some patients.
Specialist doctors can now prescribe medications based on cannabis, which are most commonly used to treat epilepsy or chronic pain.
Whilst positive for thousands of patients, the revelations have “angered and upset” Lisa.
She said: “They are playing God allowing the people on the cannabis medicine they have approved to access it, but children like Cole who tried their approved cannabis medicine and it didn’t work are left to struggle.
“While the farm seems to show Scotland moving forward the medicine they make will not be accessible by anyone in the UK as the only cannabis-based medicine authorised by NICE is by GW Pharmaceuticals.
“So the farm like the others in the UK already open and growing more cannabis than anywhere else in the world will be to supply other countries with the medicine we have been and continue to beg for daily.
“Cole is on Bedrolite made by Bedrocan and to take him off this oil while he’s doing so well and change him to another type and strain comes with far too big a risk for me to even consider.
“Bedrocan are not part of any trials or farms here and therefore this news doesn’t help my plea, it only makes me worry the ones who are a year down the line on Bedrolite will be left behind because of money and politics again.”