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UK: Plea to ease MS with cannabis is rejected

Celia Hall

The Telegraph

Thursday 03 Jul 2003

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A call to legalise cannabis to ease the suffering of patients with multiple
sclerosis was rejected by doctors yesterday.

But they agreed by a large majority that some recreational drugs should be
made legal, regulated and subject to tax.

Connie Fozzard, a retired doctor from Cornwall, argued at the conference
for it to be made legal for sufferers of MS and other conditions to be able
to obtain cannabis as long as there was medical evidence of its value.

"We do not treat other patients by avoidance of the problem," she said.

But other doctors gave warning about the dangers of addiction. Dr Patrick
Keavney, of the BMA prison medical service, said the ideas were "simplistic
and naive".

"We may well be adding to people's problems by prescribing practises," he said.

Dr David Sinclair, from Cambridgeshire, said: "We now have larger and
larger studies showing cannabis is not an innocent drug."

 

 

 

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