Medicinal cannabis supplies at risk as drug company goes bankrupt

Alfie, now 15, has been seizure free for eight years, after starting to take the drug, called Bedrolite.

Dutch company Bedrocan, was declared bankrupt in October and families have been told supplies could run out within months.

Bedrolite is a specific formulation of cannabis and people who use it say an alternative cannabis oil would not have the same effect.

Maggie from Henley-in-Arden, fears Alfie’s life could slip back to how it had been before he started taking it.

She said: “Alfie was in hospital every week for between three and five days…. for the family, it was just living in a crisis. It wasn’t a life, it was just awful.”

She added it had been proven that “if you stop giving the child medical cannabis, and then start again, sometimes it doesn’t work.”

“My wonderful grandson might be condemned to mass doses of steroids every week just to give him two or three days respite, no school, no football, ” Maggie said.