During June, the case for the legal use of cannabis derivatives was brought to the front of the news agenda by the heart-rending situation faced by Billy Caldwell.
Billy’s mother had flown to Canada to obtain a medicine that stopped his constant seizures. The medicine was confiscated at the airport upon her return to the UK. It was reported that customer officers were in tears as they removed it from her as she explained it was the only thing that gave her son some relief from his untreatable condition.
However, because of this, politicians, including the former Foreign Secretary William Hague, and others began to push for the legalising of cannabis for recreational use.
