As a new study finds whole-plant cannabis dramatically reduces seizure frequency in children with severe treatment-resistant epilepsy, parents are asking why it still isn’t prescribed on the NHS, despite medical cannabis being legalised in 2018
Watching your child as they have hundreds of seizures and wondering every morning if this could be their last sounds like every parent’s worst nightmare.
But this was very much a reality for mum Emily Howis. Her three-year-old daughter Clover is among up to 40% of epileptic children who don’t respond to conventional pharmaceutical drugs.
