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Patient Voices

Patient Voices

Real stories from medical cannabis patients sharing their treatment journeys, challenges, and how cannabis has impacted their health and wellbeing.

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Men's health and medical cannabis: the numbers and the men behind them

We all know the stereotype: men don't discuss their wellbeing, and often struggle to ask for help. This is even more true when it comes to mental health issues. This Men's Health Week, we are flipping it. Drawing on what 1,118 male patients told us about medical cannabis, plus the first-hand stories of four of them, we look at what happens when men stop putting it off and actually do something about how they feel.

10 min read
10.06.2026
Sam North

A year of listening: how our patients shaped Releaf in 2025

Over the past year, more than 50 patients chose to share their stories with Releaf. Taken together, those experiences shaped how we listened, learned, and supported people throughout 2025. This reflection brings together five patient voices that echo many of the challenges and moments we heard across the year, and how those voices continue to shape the way we care, communicate, and build support around our patients.

9 min read
06.01.2026
Sam North

Real Patient Voices: Medical cannabis, menopause, and me

The menopause is an unfortunate, yet inevitable, reality for every person born with a womb. Sleepless and restless nights, joint and bone aches, mood swings, temperature fluctuations, and that all-encompassing, nail-biting anxiety accompany this hormonal change for many, making daily life not just difficult - sometimes, they make life feel down-right gruelling.

7 min read
01.10.2025
Lucy MacKinnon

Real patient voices: Managing medical cannabis and work

This blog is the ninth in our Real Patient Voices series, spotlighting the stories of Releaf patients across the UK. In this edition, we explore how medical cannabis can be used while working, and how patients like Daisy, Lisa, and Ryan maintain employment, productivity, stigma, and self-advocacy with prescribed cannabis treatments.

10 min read
02.09.2025
Lucy MacKinnon

Real Patient Voices: Never Give Up

In honour of Never Give Up Day, we share the inspiring voices of Releaf patients who have turned to medical cannabis to manage PTSD, depression, anxiety, and grief.

10 min read
19.08.2025
Lucy MacKinnon

Fibromyalgia patient stories: real experiences with medical cannabis

Real patients share their experiences of taking prescribed medical cannabis for fibromyalgia at Releaf. Stories cover the journey from struggling with conventional treatments to finding relief through specialist-prescribed cannabis, including honest accounts of what worked, what was challenging, and how treatment changed daily life.

12 min read
11.06.2026
Patrick Bawn

Real Patient Voices: With age comes wisdom - medical cannabis and me

Chronic pain, sleep difficulties, and reduced mobility often increase with age - but often, so does wisdom. In this latest edition of our Real Patient Voices series, we share the experiences of Peter, Mary, and Simon - Releaf patients in their 60s, 70s, and beyond - who turned to cannabis-based treatments later in life. From managing trigeminal neuralgia to regaining energy in the garden, their stories highlight how it’s never too late to explore new approaches to wellbeing.

11 min read
14.07.2025
Lucy MacKinnon

Real patient voices: Treating ADHD with medical cannabis

If you’ve been following the Releaf blog, you’ll know our ‘Medical Cannabis and Me: Real Patient Voices’ series shares honest insights and lived experiences of from individuals here in the UK using cannabis-based treatments to help manage their health. For the sixth edition of this blog series, we’re paying special attention to those who’ve joined the Releaf community looking for additional ADHD support.

11 min read
30.06.2025
Lucy MacKinnon

Real patient voices: Father’s Day focus for ‘Medical Cannabis and Me’

Yesterday, the 15th of June, was Father’s Day. So, for the fifth edition of our latest series, ‘Medical cannabis and me: Real patient voices’ we’re taking on the Father’s Day theme. Here we share insights from three fathers who recently embarked upon their medical cannabis journeys. Their main motivation? Getting healthier, and happier, so that they can benefit not only their wellbeing and quality of life - but their children’s too.

11 min read
16.06.2025
Lucy MacKinnon

Real patient voices: Multiple sclerosis, medical cannabis, and me

Today marks the fourth instalment of our most recent series: ‘Medical cannabis and me: Real patient voices’, a space dedicated to highlighting first-hand accounts of Releaf patients using cannabis-based treatments to manage their health conditions. In this edition, we’re paying special attention to individuals who have turned to Releaf for MS symptom management.

9 min read
02.06.2025
Lucy MacKinnon

Real patient voices: How medical cannabis has helped alleviate digestive discomfort

If you’re an avid Releaf reader, you’ll know we recently started to share our patient’s voices on our blog, in the form of their testimonials, in our latest series ‘Medical cannabis and me: Real patient voices’. And considering next Wednesday its World Digestive Health Day, we thought it would be particularly fitting to pay special attention to those who’ve found relief in this area this week.

6 min read
19.05.2025
Lucy MacKinnon

Medical cannabis and me: Real patient voices

Every month, we have the luxury of sitting down with real Releaf patients to hear their stories, from their struggles to their successes, to their experiences with medical cannabis

8 min read
07.04.2025
Lucy MacKinnon