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British boy’s medical cannabis returned
London: The UK Home Office is returning a severely epileptic boy’s medicinal cannabis oil after confiscating it from his mother at customs.
- WAtoday
- PA
Charlotte Caldwell tried to bring the medication into Heathrow Airport in a last-ditch effort to treat her 12-year-old son Billy, but it was removed by border officials.
After a week of pleading with the Home Office, during which she accused a minister of likely signing the boy’s “death warrant”, the government has relented.
Home Secretary Sajid Javid announced on…