Guy Coxall - What's Your Why?

Cannabis Health

Welcome back to the second season of the Cannabis Health podcast - What's Your Why?

Medical cannabis experts and advocates, Hannah Deacon and Professor Mike Barnes, sit down with some of those at the forefront of cannabis to find out why it matters to them
Join Hannah and Mike as they discover how cannabis has changed their guest’s lives, what makes them tick, why they do what they do and what they think needs to improve for patients.
Forget graphs and commercial outlooks and expect open, honest conversations with those at the heart of the issue.
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Like most of us, Guy Coxall first discovered cannabis as a teenager, but while he thought he was using recreationally, it was actually helping him to manage the symptoms of his mental health conditions. Guy went on to train in natural therapies, setting up his own successful practice and becoming a college lecturer, before he discovered the potential of CBD and cannabinoids.
Guy is one of the founding members of the Cannabis Trades Association (CTA), where he served as compliance director, as well as setting up the UK's hemp think tank, HempTank UK, of which he is chair. Guy left the CTA after deciding he needed to take a different approach and launched the Seed Our Future campaign. He has published a number of reports highlighting the injustice of UK cannabis laws and supported several patients facing criminalisation for medical use.
He talks to Hannah and Mike about his journey in cannabis so far, overcoming prohibition and why he won't give up fighting the good fight.

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Hannah helped change the law in 2018 after her successful campaign to enable her epileptic son Alfie Dingley to be legally prescribed cannabis medicines. She continues to help other families access medical cannabis in the UK. Hannah is also a director of the Medical Cannabis Clinicians Society and Maple Tree Consultants.

Mike obtained the first medical cannabis license in the UK for Alfie. He has been involved in the efforts to assist many others and is founder of the Medical Cannabis Clinicians Society along with Maple Tree Consultants.

Edited by Sarah Sinclair
Artwork by Sophie Dinsdale