Cops arrested me for medical cannabis but I talked them round

A CAMPAIGNING mum talked her way out of a cell after convincing police that cannabis should be legal for medical use.

Callie Blackwell, 38, was arrested after being seen holding a cannabis plant at a Westminster protest.

She has been lobbying for the Class B drug to be allowed as a medicine since her son made a miracle recovery after she gave him liquid cannabis.

Today she continues to break the law by helping parents of sick children get access to medical cannabis through Bud Buddies UK.

Callie revealed she was arrested in February on suspicion of cultivating cannabis and held at London’s Charing Cross police station for six hours. She said: “I was like, ‘If you’re going to keep me here, I’ll tell you everything I know about cannabis.’

“By the end of it they were like, ‘Just go, this is ridiculous.’ They didn’t even caution me.

“I said to them, ‘Well what happens when I do this again?’ and they said I’d probably get a caution.

Recovered

“I told them I’m going to keep breaking the law because lives depend on it.” Callie’s son Deryn was 14 when he was given days to live after four bone marrow transplants failed to halt his leukaemia. Two months after the final op, Callie risked jail by secretly giving Deryn liquid cannabis. After five days his new bone marrow finally started to make blood cells. His immune system recovered and Deryn is now a healthy 18-year-old trainee chef. His mum was speaking in the wake of the row over Billy Caldwell, 12, of Co Tyrone, who has cannabis oil to control seizures. Callie, from Stowmarket, Suffolk, works at CBD Brothers, which produces a legal cannabis oil, and fights for medical cannabis to be legal. She added: “I don’t hand over any oil but I put people in touch with those who do. I face a possible 14 years in jail for conspiring to supply. I’ve seen the oil working miracles. I won’t stop.”