Patients Are Finding Big Problems with Their Medical Weed

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Patients Are Finding Big Problems with Their Medical Weed

“I couldn’t breathe properly. I felt a sharp pain every time I inhaled,” says Stacy, a medicinal cannabis patient in England, whose name has been changed for privacy reasons. She had no choice but to go to A&E, where she was diagnosed with a bacterial lung infection. Stacy believes her recently prescribed medicinal cannabis – a strain called Hellfire – had been contaminated with mould. “I didn’t sleep for a week,” she tells VICE. “I slowly star…