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Press Release: THC4MS trial not in public interest
Don Barnard Legalise Cannabis Alliance
Tuesday 17 Jan 2006 Legalise Cannabis Alliance [LCA] insists the prosecution of three people facing up to 14 years in jail for helping MS sufferers with "Cannabiz Chocolate" is not in the public interest (1) The trial starts at Carlisle Crown Court on 1st February 2006 at 10am, The adage that a good deed never goes unpunished may well have been written for Mark Gibson, Lezley Gibson and Marcus Davies. These are the people behind THC4MS, an organisation whose sole purpose is to provide Multiple Sclerosis sufferers with a life-altering cannabis medication. THC4MS is a Medi-weed co-operative based in the UK that promotes the use of cannabis chocolate bars free of charge for Multiple Sclerosis sufferers. All that is required to be accepted is a doctors note confirming diagnosis of MS. · THC4MS worked as a first point of contact for MS sufferers who wished to use cannabis as a medicine, but who had no access to it. · THC4MS has now helped over 1800 Multiple Sclerosis sufferers with regular supplies of over 34,000 Canna-choc bars. The service is reliant a voluntary donation basis which enables the purchase of chocolate, stamps and envelopes and other consumables. A spokesperson Legalise Cannabis Alliance said: "Over 85% of the British public support legalising cannabis for medicinal use, until that happens people like THC4MS are providing an invaluable service to people in great need. "In fact they should be celebrated as heroes rather than treated as villains..."It would be a tragic injustice were these three to serve even a minute in jail, "I can only hope that the jury will use their power acquit them all". He said. (2) Kind regards Don Barnard Legalise Cannabis Alliance, (Cyfathrach Cyfreithloni Cannabis) PO Box 198, Norfolk NR3 3WB http://www.lca-uk.org/ 07984 255015 donbarnard@lca-uk.org Editors notes (THC3). August 2005 1: THC4MS Petition to the Crown Prosecution Service, Cumbria. (signatures to date 2623 ) "I do not feel it to be in the and therefore request that CPS Cumbria immediately halt the prosecution in the case of Lezley Gibson, Mark Gibson and Marcus Davies... continued http://www.ethical-business.com/default.asp?sect=detail&pet=2001&page=2#sigs 2: You the Jury - LCA hand out: http://www.lca-uk.org/leaflets/jury_nullification_flier.pdf 3: Over the last five years,THC4MS have sent over 34,000 bars of CannaBiz chocolate to over 1800 bona-fide sufferers of Multiple Sclerosis (MS). All three concede they have broken the law but felt it essential because cannabis is often the only medicine which works for people with MS. Alternative treatments cost the NHS a fortune, aren't as effective and often come with severe side-effects. 4: Without cannabis people with MS suffer intolerable levels of pain, pain which has been compared to having barbed wire dragged up and down one's spine"... Without cannabis people with MS cannot walk, cannot feed themselves and are entirely dependent upon a carer. With cannabis they regain a reasonable quality of life the likes of which the rest of us take for granted. 5: The Government understands the value of cannabis medicines and has allowed Sativex, a British made, cannabis-based, medicine to be imported from Canada on a temporary basis. Or rather it has said Sativex can be imported. As of now not a single MS sufferer has been granted a prescription. 6: Until that point seriously ill people must risk breaking the law to find their medicine. They must track down dealers and pay upwards of £150 for a week's supply. Until recently they could contact THC4MS and be given their cannabis chocolate for free. No more, THC4MS cannot continue helping until their court case has been resolved which means hundreds of people are condemned to more days full of excruciating pain. 7: The question is why the Crown Prosecution Service is charging them at this point in time. It's certainly not because the authorities have only just discovered what they've been doing. THC4MS' activities have for years been an open secret amongst the police, local government, the post office and the MS community as a whole. 8: A blind eye was turned at every opportunity. That blind eye was turned because THC4MS are doing nothing but good. Decent, honest, people helped whenever they could. Hundreds of highly qualified doctors have supposedly "conspired" with THC4MS to help their patients. Thousands of victims of Multiple Sclerosis have had relief from the THC4MS product. End · Published and promoted by Don Barnard < pressoffice@lca-uk.org > on behalf of Legalise Cannabis Alliance, PO Box 198, Norfolk, NR3 3WB http://www.lca-uk.org/ .
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