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UK: Mum cannabis user forced to turn to dealers

Kerry McQueeney

Redhill & Reigate Life

Tuesday 03 Oct 2006

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A CROYDON mum-of-two who uses cannabis to relieve crippling leg pain
said she will be forced to turn to criminals after an organisation
providing the drug free of charge for sick people was forced to close.

The 52-year-old became a regular user of the voluntary organistion Bud
Buddies, which cultivated and provided pure cannabis for medicinal
purposes, after it was recommended by a Croydon doctor.

Bud Buddies made cannabis creams, ready-rolled joints and capsules to
post to patients free of charge.

However, this service is no longer available after its founder Jeffrey
Ditchfield was given an 18-month suspended sentence earlier this month
for a variety of drugs-related offences.
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The Croydon mum has been smoking joints and swallowing cannabis capsules
on a daily basis, supplied by Bud Buddies, to control near-constant pain
caused by osteoarthritis in both knees as well as suspected multiple
sclerosis and a brain condition which causes painful headaches.

However, she now fears she will have to turn to criminals to get a
regular supply of her unorthordox painkiller.

She said: "I don't know what I am going to do. This organisation was
providing a service for sick people. I had to get all sorts of
documentation to prove I was sick before Bud Buddies would agree to help me.

"And the cannabis they sent was pure and had not been contaminated with
anything "What people don't seem to understand is that to people like me
cannabis is medicine. I used to take a cocktail of conventional
painkillers which, in the end, stopped working.

"Using cannabis allows me to function. I hate the thought of going to
drug dealers to get it but if that's what I have to do, so be it."

Bud Buddies, which was run from Wales, had stringent procedures in place
to ensure only people with painful and debilitating illnesses could use
the cannabis. It also regularly reviewed and monitored every patient's
usage.

Patients were sent pure cannabis through the post, free of charge, in
either bud form, as a cream or in capsules and, like a charity, it
accepted donations to fund the supply.

Mr Ditchfield has long campaigned for the class C drug to be available
for medicinal purposes.
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