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Top Scots doctor says giving GPs authority to prescribe cannabis medicine to epileptic kids could save lives

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Family doctors should be permitted to give cannabis-based drugs which prevent children suffering epileptic seizures, a neurologist has said.

Dr Adelaida Martinez claims allowing GPs to give the drugs would prevent “life-threatening” situations. The expert has been writing prescriptions for two Scots boys on “compassionate grounds” for three years.Unlicensed CBD drugs help ease seizures suffered by Murray Gray and Cole Thomson, both nine.But while the drugs would be free to them on the NHS, they need an paediatric neurologist to sign the prescriptions.Did you know you can keep up to date with the latest news by signing up to our daily newsletter?We send a morning and lunchtime newsletter covering the latest headlines every day.We also send

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