Get the Government to release Teagan’s medical cannabis

The Issue

Emma’s been fighting for several months to get access to a prescription for medical cannabis. But she’s been refused at every turn, passed from pillar to post and made to jump through hurdle after hurdle.

In desperation she’s raised thousands of pounds to go to Holland and get the medicine there.

She asked for a compassionate import license so she could bring it back to the U.K. but the Home Office refused. So the medicine was confiscated from her at Southend Airport on Saturday morning.

This is a devastating blow and puts Teagan’s life at risk. 

Please help Emma get the medicine back from Customs and urge Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health to sort out the crisis in NHS prescriptions of medical cannabis so that no other family has to go through this. 

Thank you Hannah x

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Maggie DeaconPetition StarterI promised my daughter Hannah, who set up this petition and sadly died in May 2025, to continue her fight for all children with drug resistent epilepsy to have NHS access to medical cannabis treatments.
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The Issue

Emma’s been fighting for several months to get access to a prescription for medical cannabis. But she’s been refused at every turn, passed from pillar to post and made to jump through hurdle after hurdle.

In desperation she’s raised thousands of pounds to go to Holland and get the medicine there.

She asked for a compassionate import license so she could bring it back to the U.K. but the Home Office refused. So the medicine was confiscated from her at Southend Airport on Saturday morning.

This is a devastating blow and puts Teagan’s life at risk. 

Please help Emma get the medicine back from Customs and urge Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health to sort out the crisis in NHS prescriptions of medical cannabis so that no other family has to go through this. 

Thank you Hannah x

avatar of the starter
Maggie DeaconPetition StarterI promised my daughter Hannah, who set up this petition and sadly died in May 2025, to continue her fight for all children with drug resistent epilepsy to have NHS access to medical cannabis treatments.

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This petition made change with 110,930 supporters!

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Secretary of State for Health Matt Hancock
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Petition created on 6 April 2019