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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Martin Bagot

Teen faces life-threatening epileptic seizures after NHS refuses to fund cannabis drug

A teenager is facing a return of life-threatening epileptic seizures within weeks after the NHS refused to fund his cannabis drug.

Four years after a historic campaign to have medicinal cannabis legalised in Britain the Mirror can reveal there is now a block on the NHS offering the lifesaving drugs.

The life of 19-year-old Louis Petit has been blighted by violent seizures which left him bed-ridden and unable to talk properly.

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