Tag: Alfie Dingley


Desperate Mum Says She’ll Break Law To Get Epileptic Alfie, 9, Medicinal Cannabis


Hannah Deacon says it is ‘disgraceful’ that the supply of drugs helping severely epileptic Alfie will be stopped in three months – the family, from Kenilworth, Warwickshire, are considering all options. The mother of a severely epileptic boy has vowed to break the law if ministers cannot get her son the medicinal cannabis he needs. Hannah Deacon has said it is “disgraceful” that the supply of drugs helping her nine-year-old son Alfie Dingley will be…


Cannabis Saved My Son’s Life


I used to dream of being a normal mother. I would see other mums dropping their kids off at school, waving them goodbye and I’d want to be them. Not the parent with a chronically ill child. For years, this scenario felt unattainable, but since my son Alfie Dingley became the first patient in the UK to receive a permanent cannabis licence, our family has been given hope. There’s a lot of fear around the…