DEVON Cannabis Club has written a lengthy letter Totnes MP Dr Sarah Wollaston about drug policy in its crusade to get the drug legalised.
The group, who openly smoked the drug in Exeter's Flower Pots Park during an event in September, is taking its bid to get the drug legalised to Westminster.
Following Sarah Wollaston’s appearance in a House of Commons debate about drugs , Devon Cannabis Club chairman Daryl Sullivan has written to her.
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An area of the debate that was hardly touched upon in the commons is the medical uses for cannabis. Medicinal marijuana is available in 23 US states plus the District of Columbia, as well as a huge number of countries around the world. In the UK GW Pharmaceuticals produce tonnes of medical grade cannabis every year which is used to make medicines such as Sativex, an oral spray which has just been blacklisted by NICE due to cost effectiveness worries. This blacklisting has nothing to do with the efficacy of the drugs and everything to do with the fact that GW, being the sole owners of a government license to grow cannabis, are able to charge pretty much whatever they like for them. Cannabis is proven to be massively beneficial for a huge number of medical conditions and the fact that the UK government continues to class it as having no medical value is beyond ludicrous – it is criminal. Allowing cannabis to be prescribed to sick people who need it would be the humane thing to do and would save the NHS millions as patients would literally be able to grow their own medicine. But instead we insist on breaking down the doors of people growing a plant to improve their lives, branding them criminals, and in some cases locking them up and forcing them back onto legal medications which often don’t work and almost always have far greater risks to the individual than cannabis.
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For the full transcript of the letter: http://www.northdevonjournal.co.uk/Legalise-cannabis-campaigners-Devon-Cannabis-Club/story-24290261-detail/story.html
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