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UK: Doctor's diary: cannabis as medicine - the dilemma

James Le Fanu

The Telegraph

Tuesday 01 Feb 2005

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Grey-haired Patricia Tabram, in court last week for possessing 240 grams of
cannabis - worth ukp850 - reflects a growing trend of "buyers' clubs".

Those with a medicinal need for the drug are banding together to buy it in
bulk, with, one assumes, a discount from the supplier.

The difficulty for the police in trying to crack down on those such as Mrs
Tabram is that, increasingly, it appears that cannabis may be the only
remedy for a range of conditions for which there is no adequate medical
treatment.

Mrs Tabram finds that cannabis alleviates her tinnitus, while Dr Jonathon
Berman of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital reported in a study last
year that it can produce "significant improvement" in the most devastating
neuropathic pain resistant to all forms of analgesia. It is also widely
used by those with MS who find it relieves their symptoms of pain spasm and
tremor.

These patients are caught in a cruel dilemma. With the recent change in the
law, they can legally possess cannabis for their own medicinal use - but
they depend on those people such as Mrs Tabram to obtain it and the Mrs
Tabrams, in doing so, are liable to criminal prosecution. No doubt my old
university friend Home Secretary Charles Clarke, himself a child of the
Sixties, will have sympathy with their plight.

 

 

 

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