5 Comments

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   Peter Warrennder

   December 9, 2014 at 5:01 pm

   It is the judge that is deluded, and if he believes what he said to Eric, he should educate himself to how thousands of sick people find relief from their ailments by taking medicinal cannabis. The judicial system like our governments is in the pockets of corporate powers, who are the very ones benefitting from the cannabis prohibition. How can someone taking control of their own health warrant a prison sentence. Too many times the wrong people are going on trial in this country. The laws need reforming to allow the sick the right to alternative medicine. Conventional treatments are designed to treat illness never to cure it. Why would they want a cure when they are making billions off the backs of sick people, by providing ineffective expensive treatments, full of side effects, that then need even more drugs to combat the side effects. Legalising cannabis would save the NHS millions by not having to buy overpriced pharmaceutical products. There are thousands of testimonies from people who have successfully treated themselves with cannabis, but have had to take these steps under the threat of prosecution by an unfair justice system. Sick people have enough on their plate without worrying about this.
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   Alan Brown

   December 9, 2014 at 5:28 pm

   “Judge Paul Thomas told Mann that, like everyone else, the law of the land had to be obeyed and no-one could pick and choose which ones to abide by.”
   That is a highly debatable proposition. It seems to be quite acceptable in practice to evade the consequences of breaking UK law if you’ve got money and influence and can afford the best lawyers, or if you belong to one of the religions that claims exemption from e.g. animal cruelty legislation.
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   Andrew Lye

   December 10, 2014 at 5:10 am

   I have seen the effects of cannabis use on people and agree in part with the judge’s comments.
   The defendant though is in great pain we can accept. I accept cannabis can help alleviate the symptoms, but the guy shouldn’t impose his views on others or supply cannabis to others. It easy for the judge to say he should find alternative pain relief. I presume conventional medicine either doesn’t work or has let him down?
   It’s ironic that alcohol is a legal drug, and tobacco. Would we legalise those now, if we could start the world again? They kill thousands in the UK, every year.
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   darcey

   December 10, 2014 at 10:27 pm

   my husband suffered terrible when told he had grade 4 brain cancer, he suffered from cramps in his hands and legs, the doctors tried all kinds of medicines which never touched him, my husband used to cry in pain, one doctor told my husband to try cannabis, he said smoke a joint before bed, we managed to pay some and he smoked it before bed and for the first time in 2 years he slept all night, which made him feel better all day, then when ever he had an attack of the cramps he would take a couple of drags of a joint and within 10 minutes the cramps would ease and pain die down something any of the tables couldn’t do, they gave my husband 3 to 6 mths to live and i swear him smoking cannabis enabled him to live for 4 and a half years longer, which baffled doctors. and when he did pass he was pain free, i cannot understand why the government don’t have special leeway for people that can prove that cannabis works for them and there pain, like the gentleman said everyone’s entitled to a pain free life. cannabis works as a pain relief, and i have told quite a few people with cancer that are in a lot of pain to look into the benefits of cannabis, as well as the down falls there are also the benefits of use. all we had to do is google and we had all the answers. unless you have been there you will never no, and i hope you never get to no. i cant see how people can give an opinion when they never had to resort to using cannabis for pain relief. when your screaming in pain and nothing is working, you would use it, if you thought the pain would go….i could go on about what it did for my husband but unless you have been there you won’t understand.
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   tomos

   December 11, 2014 at 10:48 pm

   lets not forget that ciggys and booze are bigger killers than class A drugs, be honest pizzas,pies and sofas are bigger killers so never heard that DFS managers or macyds sent to jail