Medical cannabis experts and advocates, Hannah Deacon and Professor Mike Barnes, sit down with their guests to find out why cannabis matters to them.
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Peter Reynolds is a writer, consultant and lifelong cannabis campaigner. An expert in the science, medicine, law and politics of cannabis, he has been fighting for legalisation for more than 30 years since his first experience of the plant as a teenager. However, it was meeting patients, for whom cannabis was a life-saving medicine, that really fired his determination.
In 2011 he was elected leader of the Legalise Cannabis Alliance which, using his expertise in marketing, he rebranded and relaunched as CLEAR Cannabis Law Reform, now the longest established cannabis group in the UK.
As well as heading up CannaPro, the UK trade association for medicinal cannabis, CBD and hemp companies, has recently taken a role as secretary of the newly-formed Irish Medicinal Cannabis Council.
Peter discusses what he has learned through his years of campaigning - including the toll that social media trolls and hate campaigns took on his mental health - and how we move forward from the current barriers to access.
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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