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'I'm just trying to save my daughter's life'

Campaigner Emma Appleby travelled to the Netherlands to purchase medical cannabis for her daughter Teagan, who has a rare and severe form of epilepsy causing up to 300 seizures a day.

But the drugs, costing 拢4,500, were confiscated when the family landed at Southend Airport at the weekend.

Access to medicinal cannabis was legalised in the last year but people have struggled to secure prescriptions in the UK.

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