British Family Walks 1,000 Miles to Raise Awareness for Medical Cannabis

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Billy Caldwell, the boy whose battle with epilepsy helped inspire the UK to legalize medical cannabis in 2018, is continuing to raise awareness for medical pot.

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Three years ago this week, British customs police seized a six-month supply of CBD oil that Charlotte Caldwell imported from Canada to treat her epileptic son, Billy. Deprived of his medicine, the 12-year-old boy began suffering life-threatening seizures, and news of his plight quickly spread like wildfire throughout the UK press. This public outrage reached such a peak that the UK Home Office finally buckled and agreed to legalize...

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