Source: Worthing Herald, UK

Pub Date: Thursday, 18 September 2003

Pub LTE: Cannabis Can Cure Too

Author: Rob Scott-Wright.

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Mr Stubbs need not be concerned that cannabis is causing an increase in psychtriatric admissions (Real cost of cannabis, September 4). It seems more likley that sufferers from mental illness are increasingly using cannabis to treat their condition. Evidence of the drug's medicinal and stress relieving properties are becoming more widely known among patients and doctors alike.

According to a survey published by the journal Disability Now a quarter of disabled people in Britain are now taking cannabis with their doctors' approval. No one would consider that cananbis causes their physical disability. The company licensed to produce cannabis-based medicines is currently looking for people suffering from mental illness to become involved in clinical trials to find out if cannabis is indeed a safer alternative treatment to psychriatric drubs

Rob Scott-Wright, Paranets Against Lethal Drugs (PALAD), 26 Sackville Crescent, Worthing