Doctors prescribed nearly 20,000 more medicinal cannabis products last year than the year before.
Billy Caldwell from Castlederg in County Tyrone has a severe form of epilepsy, which at one point had him suffering hundreds of "life-threatening" seizures a day.
Licences to export cannabis have risen while import licences have fallen, according to statistics.
Police say the provision of medicinal cannabis is affecting the illicit cannabis market.
The proposals were withdrawn after lengthy consultations over utility and energy concerns.
Alexander Robinson has launched a campaign in his brother Oliver's name after he took his own life.
A venue in the north of the Isle of Man welcomes medicinal cannabis users to a "safe space" to vape.
Clover's parents estimate they have spent £60,000 on medical cannabis to control her seizures.
Producers in Jamaica and Antigua hope that increasing liberalisation will lead to higher revenues.
