United Patients Alliance Press Release
For Editor: EMBARGOED: Major announcements from Key Speakers of interest to the media and public will be made in the morning regarding their future relationship with United Patients Alliance.
Paul Flynn MP will become a Patron
Tonia Antonaizzi MP will become a Patron
Professor Mike Barnes will become a Trusteee
Gavin Sathianathan (CEO - Forma Holdings) - will become a Trustee
Happy to give more detail in person.
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Paul Flynn MP will become a Patron
Tonia Antonaizzi MP will become a Patron
Professor Mike Barnes will become a Trusteee
Gavin Sathianathan (CEO - Forma Holdings) - will become a Trustee
Happy to give more detail in person.
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United Patients Alliance announce Medical Cannabis Conference + AGM
Main Event Date: 30th September 2017
Event Time 10am to 5pm
Location: Maple House, 150 Corporation St, Birmingham B4 6TB
Guests: 200+
We are incredibly excited to announce our very first Medical Cannabis Conference and AGM weekend at Maple House, Birmingham.
Run purely by volunteers who are also patients, it’s time to celebrate how much United Patients Alliance have achieved towards our goal of legal access for medical cannabis patients in the UK since being founded in 2014
We will be hosting talks with special guests:
Prof. Mike Barnes - Consultant of Neurology
Paul Flynn MP LAB
Tonia Antoniazzi MP LAB
Dr Gary Potter - Senior Lecturer and Cannabis Cultivation expert
Dr Axel Klein - Professor of Sociology
Together have just completed 2 year study of Cultivation and Trafficking of Cannabis in the UK.
Gavin Sathianathan - CEO Forma Holdings
We aim to bring attendees up to speed on the latest science, medicine and the politics of cannabis and cannabis growing and to prepare UPA and our volunteers for the next 12 months.
Also confirmed speaking: LEAP UK, The Loop, CBDBrothers, Release, Volteface
We will have patients such as Sarah Martin, Clark French, Faye Jones and more talk about their experiences consuming cannabis as their main form of medicine.
All ages are welcome and disabled access is available
Tickets are £25 (£15 concessions) and can be purchased here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/medical-cannabis-conference-upa-agm-tickets-37657646033?aff=es2
Event Time 10am to 5pm
Location: Maple House, 150 Corporation St, Birmingham B4 6TB
Guests: 200+
We are incredibly excited to announce our very first Medical Cannabis Conference and AGM weekend at Maple House, Birmingham.
Run purely by volunteers who are also patients, it’s time to celebrate how much United Patients Alliance have achieved towards our goal of legal access for medical cannabis patients in the UK since being founded in 2014
We will be hosting talks with special guests:
Prof. Mike Barnes - Consultant of Neurology
Paul Flynn MP LAB
Tonia Antoniazzi MP LAB
Dr Gary Potter - Senior Lecturer and Cannabis Cultivation expert
Dr Axel Klein - Professor of Sociology
Together have just completed 2 year study of Cultivation and Trafficking of Cannabis in the UK.
Gavin Sathianathan - CEO Forma Holdings
We aim to bring attendees up to speed on the latest science, medicine and the politics of cannabis and cannabis growing and to prepare UPA and our volunteers for the next 12 months.
Also confirmed speaking: LEAP UK, The Loop, CBDBrothers, Release, Volteface
We will have patients such as Sarah Martin, Clark French, Faye Jones and more talk about their experiences consuming cannabis as their main form of medicine.
All ages are welcome and disabled access is available
Tickets are £25 (£15 concessions) and can be purchased here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/medical-cannabis-conference-upa-agm-tickets-37657646033?aff=es2
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Editors notes:
Contact Details:
Jon Liebling | Political Director - United Patients Alliance
E: jon@liebling.co.uk M: 07921589237
Clark French | Founder and Director - United Patients Alliance
E: as.the.sun.sets@hotmail.co.uk M: 07773 690488
Please use our Website Page link in any publications: http://www.upalliance.org/
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Introducing United Patients Alliance
The United Patients Alliance are a support and campaigning community for 1000s or medical cannabis patients in the UK who suffer from a range of conditions including; Cancer, Multiple Sclerosis, Fibromyalgia, Crohn’s, Anxiety, Depression, AIDS, Rheumatoid Arthritis, ME, PTSD, Epilepsy, Chronic and Neuropathic Pain, all of whom have found that various types and strengths of cannabis consumed in a variety of ways has proven to be a more effective medicine than their legal and prescribed alternatives in improving their lives, reducing side effects and treating their symptoms. These patients are forced to either live in unnecessary discomfort and pain or risk dealing with criminals for their medicine and a criminal record for growing it or consuming it.
We launched in June 2014 with the support of Caroline Lucas MP and Professor David Nutt and have since gained the direct support of a number of other ministers and politicians. We run Patient Perspective and Cannabis College events around the UK to give patients a forum for telling their stories and to help inform the public of the proven medical benefits whilst dispelling the myths and half-truths about its harms. We estimate that there are about 1m active medical cannabis consumers who would immediately benefit from a change in this dreadful situation. In terms of genuine information on medical cannabis and how best to consume it, we are the UK’s experts on cannabis as a medicine.
Political Director of United Patients Alliance, Jon Liebling says
"The speakers we have managed to secure for our first Medical Cannabis Conference is a testament to the amazing dedication of patients with chronic illnesses who are United Patients Alliance and to the growing medical, academic and political support for legal access to cannabis therapeutics.
We are going to have some game changing collaborations to announce. You don't want to miss this."
We are going to have some game changing collaborations to announce. You don't want to miss this."
Quotes from United Patients Alliance Patients:
Alex Fraser – Crohn’s Patient
"I was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease at 19. I cannot be prescribed any traditional painkillers for my chronic pain. Cannabis is my only medicine, it's the only thing that's ever worked. It eases my pain, gives me an appetite, helps me sleep and reduces my nausea. Regular use reduces all of my symptoms to the point where it enables me to work. Without cannabis, my life would barely be worth living"
Faye Jones - Rheumatoid Arthritis Patient
"I was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis at the age of 27 and rely on cannabis for pain relief, and to combat the side effects of prescribed treatments for my condition, that would otherwise prevent me from staying in full time employment."
