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Press Release: Healers not Dealers
Don Barnard Legalise Cannabis Alliance
Monday 22 Jan 2007 Legalise Cannabis Alliance - Press release Public Relations Legalise Cannabis Alliance PO Box 198 Norwich NR3 3WB http://www.lca-uk.org 07984 255015 publicrelation@lca-uk.org Immediate use Healers not Dealers January 26 2007 will see [UK] medical charities, patients, doctors, and most important the general public, come out in support of Marcus Davies and couple, Mark and Lezley Gibson, The “THC4MS Three”. [1] THC4MS Three” through their altruistic actions for about 1800 genuine multiple sclerosis sufferers whom they supported with cannabis chocolate, free of charge, landed them in Crown Court. After an arduous and painful two year’s of delays. the “THC4MS Three”. were all found guilty of conspiracy to supply cannabis [2] The “THC4MS Three” are due to hear their fate when they appear for sentence at "Carlisle Courts of Justice" on the 26 January. Alun Buffry, a spokesman of the Legalise Cannabis Alliance, said: "Cannabis has been a remarkable help to many hundreds of people, not only sufferers of MS: but statements made by such witnesses were disallowed by the Carlisle judge, as if their plights were not worth mentioning". ‘We will mention them’ he added ‘because cannabis has shown to be a vital help for many thousands of people including for MS sufferers. Some have told of remarkable benefits experienced after eating a small chuck of the THC4MS chocolate" The LCA has obtained the permission to publish the quote of one MS sufferer, but we are unwilling to reveal her identity. C.B. is an ex nurse from Hull. She has two children and has been diagnosed with MS. Her NHS treatment came to 21 pills a day, of which one alone cost L26 per week to supply. “Those days”, she said, “I was in a wheelchair, depressed and full of the side effects of NHS drugs, which still affect me today, I can’t keep much down. My MS nurse first suggested trying cannabis and I tried the chocolate. But my stomach disagreed, so I started to smoke it. “I have never had a more powerful experience. Within days, I regained strength enough to get out of my wheelchair. Today I am walking freely without taking one single pill. I would recommend it to anyone who is in pain as I was and I know of cancer and arthritis sufferers who equally get relief from cannabis. Mark, Lesley and Marcus are not criminals, they have been the most helpful and caring people ever.” She added: “The worst is the criminal stigma and the paranoia of it being illegal, that I have to hide it from my children. I don’t want to encourage them because they know.” “Mr Buffry said: "I guess all that benefit, all that easing of suffering, is out the window now that people like THC4MS have no defence in court! “I do not believe that the Misuse of Drugs Act was meant to stop people benefiting from drugs; it was surely meant to reduce harm and risk. But now it’s been used to convict those three and others, the end result is greater suffering for those like C.B. who have been deprived of their essential medical cannabis chocolate or maybe exposed to street dealers." The “THC4MS Three” are due to hear their fate when they appear for sentence at Carlisle Courts of Justice on the 26 January. LCA Public Relations is not aware of organised demonstration, but we understand that there may well be individual LCA members (others from various groups) and sick people (from all over the UK) will outside the court to show solidarity against this unjust evil application of the law. Thank you for you attention Public Relations/Press Office Legalise Cannabis Alliance PO Box 198 Norwich NR3 3WB http://www.lca-uk.org 07984 255015 publicrelation@lca-uk.org Notes to the editors 1: THC4MS Three...short back ground: The adage that a good deed never goes unpunished might have been coined for Lezley and Mark Gibson and Marcus Davies. These three are the people behind THC4MS, an organisation whose sole purpose is to provide Multiple Sclerosis (MS) sufferers with life-saving medicine in the form of chocolate bars containing 2% cannabis by weight. Lezley Gibson, who has MS, and Mark, her husband, were arrested in February 2005 when police visited their home in Alston, Cumbria and confiscated a quantity of cannabis and equipment for smelting chocolate. A full five months later, Marcus Davies, who ran the THC4MS web site and administered its PO Box, was arrested at his home near Huntingdon. In August, 2005, the three defendants were eventually charged with conspiracy to supply cannabis during 2004, until February 2005. The THC4MS 3 estimate that, over the years since the launch of their web site in 2000, they sent more than 36,000 bars of their CannaBiz chocolate to over 1800 bona-fide MS sufferers. Yet they deny having conspired to break the law. THC4MS scrupulously insisted that their clients must prove their medical need for cannabis before they could be supplied with CannaBiz, by supplying a letter of recommendation from their doctors. Over the years, THC4MS has received hundreds of direct referrals from medical professionals who have read about it in the press. The publication of an article by David Rowan in the Daily Telegraph Magazine on 22.02.03, for instance, prompted an avalanche of applications. Not one of the THC4MS 3 has any medical qualifications and yet they have been of more practical assistance to MS patients in the UK than the NHS. In December 2006 The “THC4MS Three” were found guilty of supplying cannabis and are listed to appear for sentence at Carlisle Courts of Justice on the 26 January. THC4MS Website http://www.thc4ms.org/ Contacts details for THC4MS.....Marcus Davies: 07835 735 011 2: Lezley Gibson press articles http://www.ccguide.org.uk/lezleygibson.php end
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