Recommending CBD-Based Treatment To Terminally Ill Cancer Patient Cost This UK Doctor His License
A recommendation to a terminal cancer patient regarding a treatment that included CBD has cost a UK physician his medical license.
According to a disciplinary panel at the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) in Manchester, Dr Julian Kenyon, 77 tried to “exploit” a patient’s suffering from stage-four metastatic prostate cancer and charge him £33,000 ($41,650) for a cannabis-based treatment program that was unlicensed, as reported by Daily Mail.
Dr. Kenyon was a surgeon in a private practice The Dove Clinic in Twyford, Hampshire, which was closed last year. He recommended a treatment plan to an unnamed patient that included CBD, the vitamin Claricell and the digestive enzyme Similase, in addition to sound and light therapy. He told the patient at the time that …