Campaigning UK mother says epileptic son might die after Brexit halts supply of medicinal cannabis

The mother whose campaign on behalf of her epileptic son helped drive the legalisation of medicinal cannabis in the UK in 2018 has said he might die after the Government announced his supply of Bedrolite oil from the Netherlands would stop because of Brexit.

Hannah Deacon, whose nine-year-old son Alfie Dingley suffers from a rare and severe form of epilepsy, said she was given just two weeks notice by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) that “prescriptions issued in the UK can no longer be lawfully dispensed in an EU member state” due to the end of the Brexit transition period on December 31, 2020.