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UK: MS cannabis supplier tells of court ordeal
Sunil Peck Disability Now (March edition)
Saturday 24 Feb 2007 A woman with multiple sclerosis who narrowly avoided jail for helping to supply cannabis chocolate bars to disabled people has told DN she was driven to the point of suicide by her court ordeal. Lezley Gibson (pictured) was found guilty of conspiring to supply cannabis and received a nine-month jail sentence suspended for two years at Carlisle Crown Court in late January. Mrs Gibson said: “There are points when I would rather have been dead than go through what I went through. I said to my husband, ‘do you fancy driving the car off a cliff? I’ve had enough.’” Mrs Gibson and her husband, Mark, who received the same sentence, produced more than 20,000 chocolate bars containing cannabis and sent them to people with MS. Niamh Eastwood, legal adviser at drugs charity Release, said: “We are glad to see that no custodial sentence was given [to the Gibsons], but the law is not clear in this area.” She added: “We have seen a number of prosecutions fail because courts did accept the use of cannabis for medical purposes fell within a necessity test. That’s no longer accepted.” Meanwhile, Conservative leader David Cameron, who is refusing to deny allegations that he used cannabis at Eton, has given cautious backing to the campaign to legalise the drug for medical purposes. Jeremy Hunt, his shadow minister for disabled people, said: “David has said that we would be “guided by the science”. “If the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) were satisfied that there was scientific evidence that cannabis could be used safely for medicinal purposes then we would make the necessary changes to the law.” http://www.disabilitynow.org.uk/news/news_mar_2007_004.htm
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