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HvyFuel
Cannabis Sacrament Minister
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 Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 4:24 pm Post subject: UK:MP calls for cannabis to be allowed as medicine |
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A Shropshire MP has launched a bid to legalise the use of cannabis for medicinal reasons.
Wrekin MP Peter Bradley is to table an early day motion in the Commons
The motion calls for doctors to be able to prescribe cannabis as a medicine even though it has yet to be officially approved.
Mr Bradley is being backed in his campaign by former drugs squad police officer Kate Bradley, from Donnington, who suffers with multiple sclerosis.
He has written to the Home Office minister Caroline Flint expressing his dismay at the continuing delays in getting cannabis approved by the drug regulation authority and urging her to authorise its limited production for medicinal use.
"In Kate's case it's a particularly bitter irony that, desperately ill though she is, she's forced to get her supplies on the streets from the kind of people she was locking up when she was fit," he added.
"I've urged the minister to exercise a little compassionate discretion so that medicinal cannabis can be made available to people like Kate who are in dire need of it." |
http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/publish/article_20227.shtml
Don't yet know when this motion is to be presented, but here it is.
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1. The text of Peter Bradley’s Early Day Motion Legalisation of Medicinal Cannabis is as follows:
“That this House welcomes the Government’s in principle decision in 2001 to legalise the medicinal use of cannabis, subject to the recommendation of the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency; but expresses its disappointment over the protracted delay in the approval process; believes that victims of the excruciating symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis and other conditions for whom cannabis offers their only relief should be allowed to make their own decisions as to whether the possible risks from medicinal cannabis pose a greater threat to their health than the disease from which they suffer; and calls on the Government to show compassion in authorising the controlled production and prescription of cannabis for medicinal use.” |
I'd never even heard of the original "in principle decision" to allow medical use but it doesn't surprise me that the MHPRA have been dragging they're feet. Wouldn't surprise me if they'd been told to either but well done Mr. Bradley.
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sibannac
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i SECOND THAT well done Mr Bradley.
I wonder if GW PHarmicueticals is going into freefall panic or will their friends in the government slow down the implementation again??
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