Campaign for Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Act

national | rights, freedoms and repression | other press Tuesday October 05, 2010 17:16 by F.S. Sneem, Co.Kerry, Ireland.

Support needed for Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Act

We are looking for help funding, campaigners, donations, time, leaflets anything possible to further the advance of Medical Cannabis. We aim to send material to every doctor ,every police station and every political official in the country until an adequate response is enforced. We want as any many signatures statements and opinions from these people to further help the campaign. Although many will disagree with the use of Facebook as a medium for change, the Facebook page for the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Act 2010 (http://hempirl.webs.com/compassionateuseact.htm) has over 5,400 likes and the plan is to push this to 100,000 so if you use this vehicle please like, suggest to all your friends and post a plea for more likes on any relevant page in your spare time if possible.

My name is F. S., I am a fourth year student of Herbal Science(BA) in the Cork Institute of Technology. I am in the process of securing herbal clinical training and will study medicine if I can afford it. My grandmother a Kurd, used two grams of cannabis a night postchemotherpay with great result, until her medicine was found and due to the plants stigmitisation she discontinued its use and died several months later. I never got a chance to meet her. This summer I volunteered for two months with WAMM (www.wamm.org) a non profit cannabis dispensary. I lived in a tent in the garden, worked in the office and attended the weekly meetings. Valerie allowed me to collate the data of a strain specific oil study based on their four strains which are (sativa, sativa dominant, indica dominant and indica), this was double blinded and will count as part of my undergraduate degree. Whilst there I encountered people who regressed from AIDS to HIV, weaned themselves of up to two dozen medications, regressed follicular lymphoma (one in the stomach completely and one from the size of a grapefuit to the size of a walnut in one patient), completely palliated all seizures in several epileptic patients, palliated pain, palliated glaucoma, palliated PTSD with suicidal tendencies/bipolar/depression and the list goes on and on.

The time is now to elicit change. There is no morally feasible argument that interferes with the alleviation of pain, of suffering and fear of mortality. Every educated human being must at this stage realise that placing cannabis in a scheduling system that makes it more illegal than cocaine, heroin, crystal meth and considers it of no medicinal value is a fallacy that cannot continue. We must review the whole drug policy internationally and change it into a more realistic system based on education rather than incarceration, but that it is a separate cause in itself. However, many claim it will happen soon, dont worry, but we need to move now, cause as much wind as possible and when the dust settles have it in place for future generations. Please help now, please contact me if you wish to or can help in any way no matter how small.

F.S.,