Source: News and Star, Carlisle
Date: February 8 2007
Author: A Stringfellow
Type: Letter
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MOST of the articles I’ve read about the THC4MS Three focus on the three
convicted for supplying cannabis chocolate, rather than on the 1,000-plus MS
sufferers, who are now deprived of an effective treatment.
Surely they are the most important feature of this whole case?
MS is a most unpleasant and incurable illness.
Its sufferers often have to live with symptoms such as painful muscle spasms,
incontinence, loss of mobility and control of hands and limbs etc.
For some sufferers, cannabis relieves these symptoms and can even eliminate
them altogether.
For many, this chocolate was the most effective and least unpleasant medication
available to them.
Surely the real victims here are those now denied their medicine?
The events and circumstances of this trial may soon be forgotten by most but
their suffering will continue. Who will help them now?
I’m sure many would like to but how many would be prepared to risk a conviction
for ‘conspiracy to supply a Class-C’ drug’ and face a possible lengthy prison
sentence?
A STRINGFELLOW
Great Corby
Carlisle
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