Family Struggles To Heal Their Son With Cannabis Oil

A family from the UK is struggling for the freedom to treat their 12-year-old son, who suffers from epilepsy, with cannabis oil.

The family recently had their supply of cannabis oil taken from them, confiscated while at the airport, and the mother has said that if her son dies as a result, it will be the state who should be held accountable.

Their act of confiscating that oil and subjecting the son to further pain is beyond cruel, his mother has said.

The family had traveled to Canada recently, to secure a 6 month supply of cannabis oil for their son. However, that oil was taken by border authorities and since the oil has been taken away from him, the mother says he's had seizures frequently occurring; he's gone right back to suffering.

While he had been taking the oil, his mother says that he had gone over 300 days without any seizure. They now say that their son is too ill to try and make the trip to Canada to get his medication.

The Home Office in the U.K. has said that they are sympathetic to the situation and for now they've temporarily backed down and the home secretary has recently issued a license to their son, Billy Caldwell, to be able to obtain the medicine he needs lawfully.

However, if authorities were truly concerned about the well-being of this boy then perhaps they wouldn't have subjected him and his family to immense suffering by confiscating some oil that's made from a plant to begin with. The family wasn't harming anyone or the property of anyone else, by trying to bring that oil to the UK so that their son could consume it. But we can see that plenty of violence and pain has been caused by authorities in response to the peaceful actions of that family to obtain that oil.

It's unjust and cruel, and this family unfortunately isn't the only one that has suffered in such a way.

The mother of the boy, Charlotte Caldwell, is also now busy pushing for authorities to launch a meeting to discuss medical cannabis for children who might have a similar situation to that of her son. She's working, as many others have been in the UK and elsewhere, to try and get authorities to reconsider their ignorant, hypocritical, and close-minded approach that they've been taking with all-things cannabis.

The hope is that children and others in the UK who might need it, would some day have safe access to this oil and other cannabis products, without being subject to any threat of violence in-return.

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Sources:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/cannabis-medication-billy-callwell-epileptic-seizures-marijuana-northern-ireland-a8401501.html
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/16/billy-caldwells-mother-hopeful-of-cannabis-medicine-licence
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/17/mother-of-boy-whose-cannabis-oil-was-seized-pushes-for-legalisation

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