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by Open-Publishing - Thursday 19 January 20062 comments
Cannabis Three face jail for helping MS sufferers
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The adage that a good deed never goes unpunished may well have been written for Mark Gibson, Lezley Gibson and Marcus Davies. These are the people behind THC4MS, an organisation whose sole purpose is to provide Multiple Sclerosis sufferers with a life-altering cannabis medication. A crime for which they due to stand trial at Carlisle Crown Court on the 1st February 2006.
Over the last five years, THC4MS have sent over 34,000 bars of CannaBiz chocolate to over 1800 bona-fide sufferers of Multiple Sclerosis (MS). All three concede they have broken the law but felt it essential because cannabis is often the only medicine which works for people with MS. Alternative treatments cost the NHS a fortune, aren’t as effective and often come with severe side-effects.
Without cannabis people with MS suffer intolerable levels of pain, pain which has been compared to having barbed wire dragged up and down one’s spine. Without cannabis people with MS cannot walk, cannot feed themselves and are entirely dependent upon a carer. With cannabis they regain a quality of life the likes of which the rest of us take for granted.
The Government understands the value of cannabis medicines and has allowed Sativex, a British made, cannabis-based, medicine to be imported from Canada on a temporary basis. Or rather it has said Sativex can be imported. As of now not a single MS sufferer has been granted a prescription.
Until that point seriously ill people must risk breaking the law to find their medicine. They must track down dealers and pay upwards of £150 for a week’s supply. Until recently they could contact THC4MS and be given their cannabis chocolate for free. No more, THC4MS cannot continue helping until their court case has been resolved which means hundreds of people are condemned to more days full of excruciating pain.
The question is why the Crown Prosecution Service is charging them at this point in time. It’s certainly not because the authorities have only just discovered what they’ve been doing. THC4MS’ activities have for years been an open secret amongst the police, local government, the post office and the MS community as a whole.
A blind eye was turned at every opportunity. That blind eye was turned because THC4MS are doing nothing but good. Decent, honest, people helped whenever they could. Hundreds of highly qualified doctors have supposedly "conspired" with THC4MS to help their patients. Thousands of victims of Multiple Sclerosis have had relief from the THC4MS product.
It is not commonly known but jurors have the right, a right established in the Magna Carta, to throw out prosecutions purely on the basis that the law itself is wrong. It doesn’t matter that the law has been broken, jurors can decide it shouldn’t have been established in the first place and acquit on that basis alone.
There is a clear need for jurors to take action when our Government refuses to. Cannabis could help patients cope with the effects of cancer, HIV, arthritis, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Cannabis is one of the most effective pain relievers in existence. Yet the Government will imprison those who use it medicinally or those who provide it to others for that purpose.
Over 85% of the British public support legalising cannabis for medicinal use. Until that happens people like THC4MS are providing an invaluable service to people in great need. Their prosecution has no justification and even less merit. It would be a tragic injustice were these three to serve even a minute in jail. In fact they should be celebrated as heroes rather than treated as villains.
Contacts:
Mark Gibson: 07880 804 718
Lezley Gibson: 01434 382 066
Marcus Davies: 07835 735 011
If you would like to contact patients THC4MS have helped please phone one of the numbers above and we will put you in touch
Notes for Editors
• THC4MS is a Medi-weed co-operative based in the UK that promotes the use of cannabis chocolate bars free of charge for Multiple Sclerosis sufferers. All that is required to be accepted is a doctors note confirming diagnosis of MS.
• THC4MS will continue to supply CannaBiz chocolate information to MS sufferers until there is a viable alternative available via the National Health Service
• THC4MS worked as a first point of contact for MS sufferers who wished to use cannabis as a medicine, but who had no access to it.
• THC4MS has now helped over 1800 Multiple Sclerosis sufferers with regular supplies of over 34,000 Canna-choc bars. The service is reliant a voluntary donation basis which enables the purchase of chocolate, stamps and envelopes and other consumables.
• The THC4MS website contains logo/graphics for the press at: http://www.thc4ms.org.uk/press.php
Forum posts
19 January 2006, 15:20
This Government has persecuted this most vunerable within our society, those with chronic ill health.
This Governemnt has done nothing but harrange and persecute these people for helping themselves to a better quality of life, with medical professional support.
This Governments health bill for morphine, within its many uses in the NHS is astronomical, reading between the lines, something that is nothing more that a weed akin to hops and nettles, is pillorised as a demonised drug with gateway potential, all disproved.
The Victorians, used Laudenam to keep its poor starving and working class subdued, I believe this Governemnt has this hidden agenda behind its dis-information,smoke and mirror attitude to a valuable herb for those otherwise untreatable within failed allopathic regimes in the supposedly care of thier conditions, often in conflict with the Hypocratic Oath.
Many medics are advising those who could be helped by cannabis, to contact such organisations as thc4ms, to help, aid and give quality of life.
The Government is not looking after these people, who with a simple named person on a Home Office list could easily grow and prepare thier own medication.
There exists a wide range of information on the positive health changes within the medicinal Cannabis user. How to grow your own and what genus and species is beneficial to which illness or chronic ill health condition.
This inforamtion given freely with expert experience, the user and beneficiary of this simple but complex herb, is a valuable recourse.
Mr Clarke may well be bamboozled , and IF he upgrades cannabis to class B, then he really needs to look at other drugs as well.
Legalisation of all illegal drugs would reduce criminality, therefore make recourses available to the Police Services to go after the Class A dealers.
A reclassification would criminalise the minority of proven medicnal users, many retired and otherwise considered of a sound and moral upsanding member of there communities.
What Is Mr Clarke going to do with these people, who are tired of being criminalised , through prejustice.
Cannabis is recorded as long as homosapien has walked on two legs, the most beneficial affects within its many uses, Jesus Christ also made an unction to heal with khana, this is recorded within the bible , but mostly dismissed, through pre conditioning and prejusdice created through the American DEA.
Those who may be considered at risk , young adult males of poor working class, this alone smacks of prejudice; are to be protected from cannabis , which has ben proven to be anything but, cannabis, as the substance known as resin or Rocky is a commercial and contaminated product. therefore a socio-economic class is further pillorised through the criminality associated with the dealers and users. The shout from the mental health psychosis specialists are also flawed , by not understand the difference with the natural herbal product and such chemical mishaps made to sell as cannabis.
Whilst there is a risk in those pre-disposed to mental ill-health, it is is less than 1%of the whole populous of the U.K.
Legalise for proven medical need, the look to legislation of all the illegal drugs used within societies all around the world.
A medical cannbis user
19 January 2006, 16:42
If the British pharmaciutical companies decided to sell cannabis, there would be a massive scramble in the government to get the drug legalised. The problem is, it is cheap, and anyone can grow their own, if necessary; there is no profit in that!