LetThemEatCake
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You can legally get the oil in the UK, TECHNICALLY, but it seems the conditions for prescribing it are so strict they basically rarely do prescribe it. According to the NHS site:
The last part is what's going to inhibit the prescriptions out of even the group they are available to. Legal doesn't mean you can just roll up and demand it, no regulated/prescribed medicine works that way here. Maybe you can find a dodgy private doc who will write private prescriptions to drug seekers, but the NHS will stick to NICE guidelines at all times. And even a private doc won't necessarily risk his or her career catering to idiots who want entirely unsuitable medications. because they read about it on the internet.
So some parents go to the Netherlands and buy it at some expense (shit ain't cheap at all, in fact it's fairly extortionate) and try to smuggle it back in. Which works when they don't get stopped and searched by customs. And doesn't when they do.
I think this rep - bolstered by all the generic hemp fanatics who basically support medical cannabis because they like to get high, and the people it has actually helped - as some magical elixir of everlasting lyfe!111 makes some parents think it will cure their kid when it will not. The claims out there for it are insane, it's basically a religious cult in some quarters and are going to lead many people into thinking it's some cure-all for anything from Stage 4 cancer to AIDS. Or they simply feel entitled given that it's one treatment they hear about a lot but cannot get their hands on and that's not fair. And it's my child and people like to try and extort everyone emotionally where childen are concerned when they couldn't give a flying crap about adults with similar conditions.
Very few people in England are likely to get a prescription for medical cannabis.
Currently, it is only likely to be prescribed for the following conditions:
- children and adults with rare, severe forms of epilepsy
- adults with vomiting or nausea caused by chemotherapy
And it would only be considered when other treatments weren't suitable or hadn't helped.
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The last part is what's going to inhibit the prescriptions out of even the group they are available to. Legal doesn't mean you can just roll up and demand it, no regulated/prescribed medicine works that way here. Maybe you can find a dodgy private doc who will write private prescriptions to drug seekers, but the NHS will stick to NICE guidelines at all times. And even a private doc won't necessarily risk his or her career catering to idiots who want entirely unsuitable medications. because they read about it on the internet.
So some parents go to the Netherlands and buy it at some expense (shit ain't cheap at all, in fact it's fairly extortionate) and try to smuggle it back in. Which works when they don't get stopped and searched by customs. And doesn't when they do.
I think this rep - bolstered by all the generic hemp fanatics who basically support medical cannabis because they like to get high, and the people it has actually helped - as some magical elixir of everlasting lyfe!111 makes some parents think it will cure their kid when it will not. The claims out there for it are insane, it's basically a religious cult in some quarters and are going to lead many people into thinking it's some cure-all for anything from Stage 4 cancer to AIDS. Or they simply feel entitled given that it's one treatment they hear about a lot but cannot get their hands on and that's not fair. And it's my child and people like to try and extort everyone emotionally where childen are concerned when they couldn't give a flying crap about adults with similar conditions.
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