Mullaway's Medical Cannabis: Authorities 'hold back research&#

[grace]

Tony Bower, founder of Mullaway’s Medical Cannabis, claims to have treated a variety of medical problems with extracts obtained from cannabis plants.

 

CANNABIS may be a viable cure for chronic pain, but convincing the authorities is proving to be a political minefield for one pioneer.

 

Tony Bower, founder of Mullaway’s Medical Cannabis, has developed a way to access the healing qualities of cannabis without the infamous ‘side effects’, and his weekly Nimbin dispensary is fast gaining popularity.

 

It’s Saturday morning at Nimbin’s Hemp Embassy and its president, Michael Balderstone, is making us (conventional) tea while we wait for Mr Bower, the most popular man in town. Mr Balderstone says we’ll just have to wait.

 

Following a serious motorcycle accident 30 years ago Mr Bower developed a method to distil a stable tincture of THC (the active component in cannabis) capable of providing effective relief for sufferers of chronic pain, without the often debilitating side-effects associated with prescription painkillers.

 

Mr Bower has since successfully helped sufferers of cancer, AIDS, multiple sclerosis and migraines.

 

In Australia a synthetic cannabinoid known as Marinol is available under strict conditions, but Mr Bower says his is better.

 

He explained that different strains of the plant have different effects, and he has identified the types which are better for therapeutic use.

 

A court appearance for cultivation of cannabis 12 years ago effectively left him with permission to grow up to 49 plants for personal use, but now demand for his product means he needs to grow more and licensing is proving problematical.

 

The Federal Police have told him to ‘get a legal framework around it’, but the bureaucratic toing-and-froing between the Therapeutic Goods Administration and NSW Health has left him in a legal no-man’s-land.

 

“I think I’m too hot tohandle. Every time I line up a university to do the necessary tests there’s pressure from above to shut it down,” Mr Bower said.

 

His solicitor, Debra Sands, believes NSW Health is baulking and intends to take the case to the Supreme Court.

 

Author: Dominic Feain

Date: 8th February 2010

http://www.northernstar.com.au/story/2010/...-back-research/

[Radic]

hail mullaway

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too hot tohandle

even the cops know it

line up a university to do the necessary tests there’s pressure from above to shut it down

hotter de battle

sweeter da victory

His solicitor, Debra Sands, believes NSW Health is baulking and intends to take the case to the Supreme Court.

harder dem come

the bureaucratic toing-and-froing between the Therapeutic Goods Administration and NSW Health has left him in a legal no-man’s-land.

harder dema fall

forward ever

bless his solicitor, Debra Sands

show no mercy

justice must prevail

the people responsible for the delays must be sacked and fined

who so ever digith a pit

shall fall in it

may His solicitor, Debra Sands bury dem

nuff raspect

everytime

free cannabis

free poeple

free land

[flatcat_auz]

I always thought that once a legal decision has been made it then becomes a 'precedent' and therefore allows for others to use such a defense?

 

I guess what I aiming is at "how do I get permission to cultivate 49 plants.... ?"

[Radic]

i hear yah flatcat_auz

i wish

but i hafe say

typical media miss reporting

hes talking strictly outdoors here

50 plants outdoors is mandatory go direct to jail or prove your innocence

we can all claim up to 49 plants as personal, medicine

and the magistrate courts can deal with it

50 plants is a ticket to the supreme court

please correct i if im wrong Grace

to date feb 2010

no one yet has been granted a license to grow medicinal cannabis in oz as far as i know

naworries

soon come

this action is part of the solution

so let all get behind it and help him push

how????

eze

leave a comment pon the web site for a start

write to the papers and tv

ring talk back radio

tell everyone you know hafe galong so

stronger together

forward ever

free cannabis

free people

free land

[iamnotacop]

onya mullaway

[flatcat_auz]

thnx Radic....

Should'a known.