Pain and Punishment
On 1st February 2006 at Carlisle Crown Court (in the UK), three people are to be prosecuted for supplying cannabis chocolate to Multiple Sclerosis (MS) sufferers.
Over the last five years, operating as THC4MS, they have sent over 34,000 free 'Canna-choc' bars to more than 1800 bona-fide sufferers of Multiple Sclerosis (a doctor's note is required, confirming diagnosis of MS). All three concede they have broken the law but felt it essential because cannabis is often the only medicine which works for people with MS. Alternative treatments cost the National Health Service a fortune, aren't as effective and often come with severe side-effects.
Without cannabis people with MS suffer intolerable levels of pain, pain which has been compared to having barbed wire dragged up and down one's spine. Without cannabis people with MS cannot walk, cannot feed themselves and are entirely dependent upon a carer. With cannabis they regain a quality of life which we take for granted. Until recently they could contact THC4MS and be given their cannabis chocolate.
Should the givers be prosecuted as villains or praised as heroes?
A note to the Judge:
The British Government understands the value of cannabis medicines and has allowed Sativex, a British made cannabis-based medicine, to be imported from Canada on a temporary basis. Or rather it has said Sativex can be imported. To this date not a single MS sufferer has been granted a prescription.
Source: Press Release by THC4MS.
Over the last five years, operating as THC4MS, they have sent over 34,000 free 'Canna-choc' bars to more than 1800 bona-fide sufferers of Multiple Sclerosis (a doctor's note is required, confirming diagnosis of MS). All three concede they have broken the law but felt it essential because cannabis is often the only medicine which works for people with MS. Alternative treatments cost the National Health Service a fortune, aren't as effective and often come with severe side-effects.
Without cannabis people with MS suffer intolerable levels of pain, pain which has been compared to having barbed wire dragged up and down one's spine. Without cannabis people with MS cannot walk, cannot feed themselves and are entirely dependent upon a carer. With cannabis they regain a quality of life which we take for granted. Until recently they could contact THC4MS and be given their cannabis chocolate.
Should the givers be prosecuted as villains or praised as heroes?
A note to the Judge:
In Germany earlier this year, in the case of a 41-year old multiple sclerosis patient, Judge Ulrich Krehbiel used strong words against criminal prosecution of severely ill persons who use cannabis medicinally. "Why don't we allow a man with such a heavy burden some good days," he said.A note to the Jury:
(Source: http://www.cannabis-med.org/)
Jurors have the right (established in the Magna Carta) to throw out prosecutions purely on the basis that the law itself is wrong. It doesn't matter that the law has been broken, jurors can decide it shouldn't have been established in the first place and acquit on that basis alone.A note to the Whingeing Whiners:
Get a Whife.Footnote:
The British Government understands the value of cannabis medicines and has allowed Sativex, a British made cannabis-based medicine, to be imported from Canada on a temporary basis. Or rather it has said Sativex can be imported. To this date not a single MS sufferer has been granted a prescription.
Source: Press Release by THC4MS.
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