Medical cannabis experts and advocates, Hannah Deacon and Professor Mike Barnes, sit down with some of those at the forefront of cannabis to find out why it matters to them
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Our first guest, the Labour MP for Gower, Tonia Antoniazzi, has made it her mission to advocate for medical cannabis in the UK since she was elected in 2017.
As well as lobbying her colleagues and playing an influential part in the legalisation of medical cannabis in 2018, she has twice travelled to Holland with the parents of severely epileptic children, to see first hand the lengths they have been forced to go to access their medication.
Tonia touched on everything from why this is an issue so close to her heart, to how we get cannabis back on the political agenda.
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Hannah helped change the law in 2018 after her successful campaign to enable her epileptic son Alfie Dingley to be legally prescribed cannabis medicines. She continues to help other families access medical cannabis in the UK. Hannah is also a director of the Medical Cannabis Clinicians Society and Maple Tree Consultants.
Mike obtained the first medical cannabis license in the UK for Alfie. He has been involved in the efforts to assist many others and is founder of the Medical Cannabis Clinicians Society along with Maple Tree Consultants.
Join Hannah and Mike as they discover how cannabis has changed their guest’s lives, what makes them tick, why they do what they do and what they think needs to improve for patients.
Forget graphs and commercial outlooks and expect open, honest conversations with those at the heart of the issue.
Edited by Sarah Sinclair
Artwork by Sophie Dinsdale