'Two-tier system' stops NHS patients accessing medical cannabis

Emma Appleby travelled to Holland to buy cannabis oil for her daughter Teagan, who has severe epilepsy, but customs officials confiscated the drugs. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PANHS patients are being refused access to medical cannabis that is being prescribed by private doctors in an emerging “two-tier system”, experts and campaigners have warned. While private patients have enjoyed much greater access to medical cannabis following its legalisation last year, paying hundreds of pou