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Why can't I have the cannabis spray that eases agonies of MS
Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 11:21 pm
by MSUK
Susan Costello was diagnosed with a progressive form of the neurological disease multiple sclerosis in 2003, soon after getting married.
Her condition has slowly deteriorated.
I can’t feel anything in my right foot – it’s like a piece of dead meat,’ says the 49-year-old mother of one from Prestwich, Manchester.
‘When I walk, I often need to lean against a wall or ask for a friend to help support me.
Every day I get painful spasms in my right leg, which make it stiffen and stop me sleeping.’
But there is a drug that can help MS sufferers like Susan. ... Read More -
http://www.msrc.co.uk/index.cfm/fuseact ... ageid/1814
Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 8:58 am
by LokeRundt
it grows as a plant! How you gonna keep the plant illegal (when many of the therapeutic effects can be derived by alcohol extraction) and then charge an insane amount because some company has got a patent on how to synthesize the cannabinoids?
grrrr this all makes me churn
Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 9:15 am
by mrbarlow
LokeRundt wrote:it grows as a plant! How you gonna keep the plant illegal (when many of the therapeutic effects can be derived by alcohol extraction) and then charge an insane amount because some company has got a patent on how to synthesize the cannabinoids?
grrrr this all makes me churn
Therein lies Mrs. Costello's answer to her problem
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 12:07 am
by Bender
Seriously though, I've smoked weed my entire adult life, and I want to quit for health reasons rather badly. Now I could move 20 miles and me in a state that (theoretically) would make my medical marijuana legal, but I can't move inside the US to a place that will let me use the much less harmful inhaler.
I know the damned puritan's hate everyone else, but I don't care if they put something to kill the buzz in so long as it's not a stimulant (the govt has no problem giving us speed after all) and it still makes it make me feel better.