Cannabis Meds: ‘I Risk Criminal Record to Help My Child’

Anthony Clarry has had to get used to breaking the law. Once a month he smuggles two cannabis-based medicines into the UK for his five-year-old daughter Indie-Rose, who has a rare form of severe epilepsy.

Speaking minutes after clearing customs at Stansted Airport, he told the BBC: “Every time I come back from the Netherlands I am really anxious that they might stop me and then I risk a criminal record, and also having Indie’s medicine taken away which would potentially put her life at risk.”

Indie-Rose’s mother, Tannine Montgomery, has also made the trip. She said: “We should not have to spend £1,500 a month on these medicines, but be able to pick it up from a local pharmacy.”

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