Billy Caldwell secures historic partnership to “unlock the deadlock” on medical cannabis access on the NHS

Billy Caldwell, the boy from Northern Ireland who helped to change the UK law prohibiting the medical use of cannabis, along with his mother Charlotte Caldwell has secured an agreement with the Department of Health and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to carry out real-world studies, through ‘I am Billy’ non-profit clinics, to […]
Billy Caldwell secures Ministerial meeting to help break medical cannabis deadlock

Billy Caldwell the boy who changed the law and furthermore went on to pick up the first Cannabis Medicine prescription funded by NHS, and his mother Charlotte completed their 1,000 mile walk to Westminster on 14 June 2021 and are now delighted to announce that the campaign’s efforts have succeeded in securing an historic ministerial […]
Billy and Charlotte Caldwell request meeting with Matt Hancock to discuss medical cannabis

Billy and Charlotte Caldwell will finish their 1000-mile-long fundraiser walk in Westminster to invite the Health Secretary and other government officials to meet and discuss a specially designed study for medical cannabis. As part of the “I am Billy campaign”, Billy and Charlotte Caldwell started their walk in Belfast and will reach London via the […]
Campaign For Making Medical Cannabis Free In the UK Launched

Medical cannabis campaigner, Charlotte Caldwell, has called on the government to back her new campaign to make medical cannabis available for free to those in need in the UK. Ms Caldwell has long been fighting for medical cannabis reform in the country. She claims that the drug has saved her child, Billy, who was diagnosed […]
Billy Caldwell Became the First UK Patient to Receive Lifelong Medicinal Cannabis Prescription on the NHS

In a landmark decision, the severely epileptic teenager, Billy Caldwell, will become the first UK patient to be given NHS prescribed medicinal cannabis. Following years of campaigning, experts claim the move could pave the way for thousands of patients to receive the treatment across the UK. Billy’s first batch of medicine, prescribed by a private […]