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UK: Opinion: FOR: Definite Therapeutic Uses
Clare Hodges The Scotsman
Tuesday 23 Oct 2001 Note: Clares Hodges is director for the Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics, which has been lobbying for cannabis to be made available for people with chronic illnesses. "People with serious chronic illnesses like Multiple Sclerosis, AIDS and cancer get great symptom relief from using cannabis. It's not the case that we all get stoned all the time. It does different things for different people, but in general it gives pain relief and acts as an anti-spasmodic and an anti-depressant. Lifting the mood is really important for people with a chronic or terminal illness. It's terribly depressing being ill. "Cannabis is not a powerful drug but it helps a whole lot of people. "I have suffered from MS for 19 years. I first took cannabis for the condition nine years ago and I noticed relief immediately. I suffer from discomfort in my bladder and bowel and when I first smoked it I felt the tension lift. "The implications of this change in legislation for people like me will be that they will be less frightened to try and obtain cannabis. We will still have to break the law to get it but this will make it a bit easier for people to seek out a supplier. "We still have a long way to go, however, and I hope the next step will be to make people with chronic conditions effectively immune from the threat of prosecution for possessing cannabis and eventually for the government to supply quality-controlled cannabis for medicinal use."
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