‘I shouldn’t have to look over my shoulder’: Carly Barton’s fight for medicinal cannabis – The Guardian

‘I shouldn’t have to look over my shoulder’: Carly Barton’s fight for medicinal cannabis – The Guardian

‘I shouldn’t have to look over my shoulder’: Carly Barton’s fight for medicinal cannabis

It is the only thing that relieves Carly Barton’s crippling pain, but she can’t take cannabis legally. So she’s growing her own – and has told the police.

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“She decided to go private, with a view to converting to the NHS after a month or two, if it could be shown to be working. She got a private prescription from a pain specialist, Dr David McDowell, in Manchester. But then there were permits and licences, in order to import her medicinal cannabis from Holland. In total, a month’s worth of cannabis cost Barton about £1,400; there was no way she could afford to continue.”

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