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“Before this,” Cowan says, “as an adult, I’d have to sit in a yard waiting for some kid to turn up on a bike, then drive home paranoid that the police would pull me over, just for accessing medication.

It is limited to people with specific rare and severe forms of epilepsy; adults with vomiting or nausea caused by chemotherapy, and those with certain multiple sclerosis symptoms.

It’s all down, science suggests, to the unique interaction of cannabis with our endocannabinoid receptors – a little-understood cornerstone of human anatomy, which regulates and controls many of our brain and body’s most critical functions.

The first mention of epilepsy while Alfie was at Great Ormond Street Hospital; regular readmissions; countless cycles of seizures only eased by a cocktail of drugs, including morphine and intravenous steroids.

In a statement, a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Social Care told the Observer: “Licensed cannabis-based medicines are routinely funded by the NHS where there is clear evidence of their quality, safety and effectiveness.

“I qualified in the early 1990s,” says Holden, “and knew nothing about cannabis medicine through most of my years practising.” A specialist in chronic pain and inflammatory arthritis, she was sceptical when first approached by a now Curaleaf colleague.

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