{"id":142767,"date":"2018-06-18T13:27:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T13:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/cannabis-oil-row-boy-discharged-from-hospital\/"},"modified":"2018-06-18T13:27:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T13:27:05","slug":"cannabis-oil-row-boy-discharged-from-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/cannabis-oil-row-boy-discharged-from-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis oil row: Boy discharged from hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Charlotte and Billy Caldwell\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/11BD3\/production\/_102095627_billycaldwell.jpg\"\/><figcaption>Image caption                                      Cannabis oil is used to control Billy&#039;s seizures                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">A boy with severe epilepsy who was admitted to hospital after his medical cannabis oil was confiscated has been discharged. <\/p>\n<p>Billy Caldwell, 12, was treated with the drug in hospital after the Home Office granted a 20-day licence for the use of the banned substance.<\/p>\n<p>His mother says his seizures are reduced when he takes the oil and called for it to be freely available.<\/p>\n<p>Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said a review of the law is under way.<\/p>\n<p>The Home Office currently is the ministry in charge of cannabis legislation. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the Today programme, Mr Hunt said Home Secretary Sajid Javid would complete the law review &quot;as quickly as he can&quot;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Medical cannabis ban &#039;bizarre and cruel&#039;<\/li>\n<li>Epileptic boy gets cannabis oil back<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Under the terms of the temporary licence Billy has to go to the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London to have the medicine administered. <\/p>\n<p>His mother Charlotte Caldwell, from County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, said she has rented a flat in order to facilitate this temporary treatment. <\/p>\n<figure>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p06bb7hz.jpg\"\/>Media playback is unsupported on your device<figcaption>Media captionCharlotte Caldwell said the medication ordeal had been &#039;horrific and cruel&#039;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last week officials at Heathrow airport confiscated Billy&#039;s cannabis oil, which Ms Caldwell had been attempting to bring a supply into the UK from Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Cannabis oil was first used to control Billy&#039;s seizures in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>It contains a substance called Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which is illegal in the UK but available elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image caption Cannabis oil is used to control Billy&#039;s seizures A boy with severe epilepsy who was admitted to hospital after his medical cannabis oil was confiscated has been discharged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":142768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}