Welcome back to the second season of the Cannabis Health podcast - What's Your Why?
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
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.
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Our first guest, Peter Carroll, is an award winning public affairs campaigner, widely credited as the architect of Joanna Lumley’s Gurkha Justice campaign and one of the founders of the UK’s most successful fuel taxation campaign. But most listeners will know him for his work campaigning for medical cannabis as the driving force behind lobby group, End Our Pain.
As co-founder of Tendo Consulting Peter was instrumental in the campaign to change the law in November 2018 and continues to fight for NHS access on behalf of the families of those children with severe epilepsy whose lives have been transformed by cannabis-based medicines.
Peter always knew he wanted to be involved in politics somehow, but he took a very unconventional route. Here he gives us a glimpse behind closed doors from his time as special advisor in HM Treasury and reveals why he feels optimistic about improving access to medical cannabis in the UK.
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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.
Edited by Sarah Sinclair
Artwork by Sophie Dinsdale