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Support for New Campaign
Support for New Campaign.
About this update from Kanabo Group Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n RNS Number : 8016A\n Kanabo Group PLC\n 04 June 2021\n \n \n \n \n 4 June 2021\n \n \n Kanabo Group Plc\n \n \n (\"Kanabo\" or \"the Company\")\n \n \n Kanabo supports the \"I am Billy\" Campaign and Foundation to promote wider NHS patient access to Medical Cannabis in UK\n \n \n \n \n \n Kanabo Group Plc (LSE:KNB), a medical cannabis R&D Company focused on the distribution of cannabis-derived products for medical patients, and non-THC products for CBD consumers, is delighted to announce its support for the \"I am Billy\" Campaign and Foundation to promote wider NHS patient access to medical cannabis in the UK. \n \n \n Highlights\n \n \n · \n Kanabo named as designated innovation sponsor and partner of the \"I am Billy\" campaign named after pioneering mother and son Charlotte and Billy Caldwell\n \n \n · \n Andy Morrison, non-executive director of Kanabo, appointed as trustee director of The I am Billy Foundation\n \n \n · \n \"Walk with the Wizard\" fund-raising campaign expected to arrive in Westminster on 14 June 2021\n \n \n \n \n \n \n The I am Billy Campaign \n \n (\n \n https://www.iambilly.uk/our-campaign\n \n ) \n \n \n \n I am Billy\n \n is a campaign brought forward by Billy and Charlotte Caldwell, the mother and son who changed the UK medical cannabis law in 2018. Billy Caldwell went on to pick up the first cannabis medicine prescription funded by the NHS. \n \n \n \n I am Billy \n \n is a pioneering medical cannabis campaign which seeks to promote urgent and achievable solutions. Amongst these suggested solutions is a proposal to carry out real world, evidence-based studies at an I am Billy not-for-profit clinic. The studies will combine data and academic research into the safety and efficacy of cannabis-based medicines.\n \n \n The campaign takes a positive and collaborative approach. It presents potential solutions to 'unlock the deadlock' between vulnerable and chronically ill patients and current prescription practices in the UK and Channel Islands. It aims to address the need for safe and consistent prescribing to ensure patients receive the medicine they require via NHS funding and to provide reassurance and confidence amongst NHS doctors to prescribe cannabis medicines.\n \n \n \n I am Billy \n \n is focused on the urgent needs and real experiences of ...