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UK: Case points to the answer
Denise Robertson The Journal Live
Tuesday 02 Jan 2007 Listening to Lezley and Mark Gibson on Women's' Hour it was impossible not to feel sympathy for them and the people they were trying to help. Lezley suffers from multiple sclerosis and for years her symptoms have been kept at bay by cannabis use. She has also supplied cannabis chocolate to other sufferers on a non-profit making basis. Mark, her husband, has helped her. Now they have both been convicted of drug dealing and will be sentenced later this month. Passionate as I am about drug abuse, I would like to see a law permitting the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes. The BMA admits that cannabis-based medicines are effective in certain cases but disapproves of the use of crude cannabis because it is not pure and may have toxic substances in it. Surely it's wrong to drive ill people into backstreets or on to the internet in search of relief, knowing that what they buy there may be harmful. If doctors were able to supply cannabis on prescription to those people they believe would benefit from it, who would be harmed? http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/journallive/thejournal/thejournal/tm_method=full%26objectid=18365317%26siteid=50081-name_page.html
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