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Letter: Medicinal use of cannabis

Hamish Crisp

Aberdeen Press & Journal

Monday 07 Jul 2003

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SIR, - As a fellow-sufferer currently using cannabis to alleviate the
symptoms of MS, I am appalled, horrified and terrified by the treatment
of Elizabeth Ivol. http://www.ccguide.org.uk/bizivol.php

This would surely not have happened in the Scotland I envisaged when I
voted so enthusiastically for the resumption of the Scottish
Parliament.

It is galling, indeed, to discover that your MSP, after all the brouhaha
surrounding the recent elections, has no power whatsoever to affect Mrs
Ivol's legal standing. The basic response from the Mound is: "I must
record that the laws governing the licensing of medicines and the use of
recreational drugs are reserved to Westminster, so the Scottish
Parliament does not have any powers to change the laws
which Biz Ivol is charged with having broken."

Between this and the apparent unfettered costs of "The Big Hoose" at
Holyrood, the Scottish state has become a farcical joke to the people.
It seems that they have the power to spend our money, but not the power
(or inclination) to prevent the vulnerable among us being driven into
their graves by "Scottish justice".

I despair of my country.

The moral and logical reason of a law that leads to this outrage is
beyond the understanding of the public in whose interests it is being
enforced.

Mrs Ivol is not a criminal in the eyes of the people. Surely laws of
state should reflect the values of society, and the will of the people.

The medicinal use of cannabis must be legalised and rationalised.

Hamish Crisp
21 Mayflower Street,
Townhill,
Dunfermline.

 

 

 

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