MEDICINAL CANNABIS
Source: The Journal
Pub date: Friday, June 03, 2005
Pub LTE: Medicinal cannabis
Author: Lezley Gibson
Web: http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/thejournal/
Contact: journal.editor@ncjmedia.co.uk
At last some reasoned reporting on the miracle drug "cannabis"
Guy Basnetts article "cannabis hope for mental illness" was very
refreshing, factual and unbiased .
I suffer from Multiple Sclerosis and have know for some time about the
massive benefits of cannabis and have always been outraged by the biased
reporting on the subject.
Your "comment" article however was again mostly ill-informed.
Without cannabis I would be incontinent and wheelchair bound and I know
many more sufferers who's quality of life would be zilch without cannabis, none
of us are mental or "druggies".
I have had to get my medicine off a "back street dealer" and
thousands of other ill and terminal people do too thanks to our government
depriving us of essential medicines,
If we keep quiet about the benefits of cannabis then ill people will
still be trawling back streets and other shady places in their quest for
medicine.
Cannabis has no lethal deadly dose, sugar, coffee, water, alcohol and
most other substances do !
Cannabis derived medicines that have been researched and developed in
the UK are not available here but are in Canada !
I agree that it is very important that the government immediately clear
up all this confusion but I also feel that they are more confused than we are,
a start would be an immediate amnesty on medicinal cannabis use and maybe talk
to the people who are actually having to live with these confusing laws.
Yours sincerely
Lezley Gibson
Harvest Home
Front Street
Alston
Cumbria