Cannabis? But what about the children?

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Cannabis? But what about the children?

PR Cannazine

24 December 2008

http://pr.cannazine.co.uk :

http://pr.cannazine.co.uk/content/view/794/1/

 

Almost all of the government’s reasoning over the reclassification of cannabis involves a ‘what about the children’ perspective.

 

We constantly hear about young people and mental illness as the demonisation process rolls on. They worry about seed shops too close to schools and the media play on parental fears of their little one’s being seduced into drug use.

 

But, in the case of septuagenarian milkman Robert Holding, there were only consenting elderly people involved.

One would assume that having lived for seventy years or so that they would be capable of making an adult and informed choice in using cannabis to ease the pain of arthritis and other conditions associated with the human body naturally growing old.

 

It would seem that the robber barons who run this country do not agree despite the overwhelming evidence that cannabis is one of the best medicines in the world for many painful and debilitating conditions.

 

By delivering his customers chosen medicine along with the daily pinta Mr Holding was providing humanitarian aid and a valuable public service to elderly people in pain.

 

The government rant on and on about health issues yet their prohibitionist policies on cannabis push people into risking their health and their freedom. They ignore their own experts and they ignore the fact that cannabis is a medicine used by millions of people worldwide. Mr Holding should be given a medal for his altruistic act, rather than the threat of a prison sentence.

 

What now? Will the elderly sufferers have to live with their pain, take the very addictive opiate based pain-killers that is the only real alternative, or will they now have to make contact with the criminal world to get a supply of their chosen medicine and increase the risk to their health with the possibility of contaminated and overpriced ‘gritweed’ or hash adulterated with chemicals and poisons.

 

This is yet another example of Gordon Brown’s misguided policy on cannabis, a policy that is criminalizing the sick, the elderly and the vulnerable, a policy which does far more real harm that the use of cannabis could ever do.

 

Norris Nuvo

http://norrisnuvo.co.uk

 

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