The men in mental health: “I felt a sensation and realised this is what happiness feels like”

By |2021-11-12T23:20:25+00:0012 November 2021|

For men’s mental health awareness month, Cannabis Health speaks to fathers, patients and carers about their experiences, with a focus on what needs to change. In the second of our series, we meet medical cannabis patient, Lewis Morgan. Lewis has PTSD as well as chronic pain [...]

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Can THC play a role in mental health care?

By |2021-11-12T23:19:57+00:0012 November 2021|

Dr Niraj Singh, a consultant psychiatrist and prescriber at The Medical Cannabis Clinics discusses the important role that THC can play in treating mental illness.  As a consultant psychiatrist in the NHS, Dr Niraj Singh treats patients with serious mental health conditions, from anxiety and depression [...]

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An introduction to Brown’s CBD: A family run business

By |2021-11-12T23:19:19+00:0012 November 2021|

BROWN’S CBD is a family-run business based in Sheffield. Its founder, Laurence Brown, started the company after personally experiencing how CBD products can help people live a better life. The young entrepreneur who seeded his initial vision into a successful business over the last three years [...]

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Irish CBD start ups collaborate on products for supporting menopause

By |2021-11-12T23:18:33+00:0012 November 2021|

Two Irish CBD companies have joined together to collaborate on CBD balms aimed at helping the symptoms of menopause and boosting wellness. GROUND Wellbeing from Cork and Ethos CBD from Wicklow both launched in November 2020 and this collaboration will combine aromatherapy and CBD. The balms [...]

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‘Crisis’ in paediatric access to medical cannabis forcing parents to black market

By |2021-11-12T23:17:57+00:0012 November 2021|

Experts have warned that the lack of paediatricians willing to prescribe cannabis medicines in the UK is reaching crisis point, leaving children’s lives at risk and forcing parents to turn to the illicit market. The lack of pediatric neurologists willing to prescribe medical cannabis in the [...]

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Calls for cannabis medicines to be added to NHS drug dictionary

By |2021-11-12T23:17:39+00:0012 November 2021|

Patients have joined calls for cannabis-based medicines to be added to the NHS drug dictionary, saying their exclusion could lead to potentially “dangerous” contraindications. Patient organisation PLEA (Patient-Led Engagement for Access) has joined clinics in the sector and MPs, calling for cannabis-based products to be added [...]

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