I AM a medicinal cannabis user. I suffer from multiple sclerosis.
The recent reports in the media are very one sided, as usual. People with a pre-disposition to mental illness will not be helped by the use of caffeine, alcohol, tobacco and/or any other "drug" not just cannabis!
If I and many others didn't use cannabis we would be incontinent, wheelchair bound, unable to sleep for pain and discomfort and many other rather awful things.
The people who use cannabis recreationally are taking a risk as does anyone who uses alcohol, valium, steroids, tobacco etc.
Please get this thing into perspective and stop scaremongering. Cannabis is my miracle medicine and certainly not a waste of time.
Lezley Gibson,
Front Street,
Alston,
Cumbria.
Updated: 10:56 Wednesday, April 20, 2005
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