Marijuana legalised in the UK for medical use

I see that Marijuana has been legalised in the UK for medical use.

The only UK licence to use Marijuana for medical purposes has been granted to GW Pharmaceuticals.

Check out the website at :-

http://www.gwpharm.com/

The company have produced medicines to help Multiple Sclerosis suffers, which have already been approved for sale in Canada.

Is this a major softening of the UKs anti-Marijuana laws, or yet more mixed signals from the UK Government?

Approved for sale? It can still only be prescribed right?

Well, I suppose it is a little bit of softening but there appears to be a few catches.

We've had several programmes on TV here over the last few years saying how it helped MS sufferers, but it was always quantified by the "it can do you more harm than good," brigade.

Looks like the gov have finally come round to thinking it can be beneficial but benefitted the pharmacutical giants into the bargain.

if there's money to be made... the government will get into it!

The drugs will only be available on very secure prescription, but bit by bit the government seem to be softening their stance on Marijuana .

The drugs have been cleared for use in Canada, and more countries are surely going to follow in due course.

Potshot

Well our lot have struggled against it for years, so the medical benefits must have been made really clear now, for them even to go this far.

It's a shame that it's taken them this long and so many people have had to suffer.

The Governments stance has been softening for a while now - seldom will you see those caught in possession get anything more than a slapped wrist.

Fact of the matter is that marijuana is less damaging than say tobacco or alcohol. Those have been freely available for years, and account for a huge number of deaths globally, so you've got to wonder what grounds they have for not legalising it completely.

That said, I do applaud their move towards making it available for medicinal use, as I know that it is far preferable to strong painkillers.

Having MS myself i was prescribed medication from my GP which was aweful, having to take 2 before bed, and making sure once you took them to be in bed within 15 mins otherwise your legs don't work properly. Then in the morning being unable to wake up and feeling like a zombie for a good part of the day then having to do it all again that very night, i threw them away as i prefer to smoke weed as it doesn't make me feel anything like what the prescribed medication did and can get on with my life.
I wish they would just legalise it.

lol why does everyone post on every one of these threads, but not mine, assholes jk

Potshot said:

I see that Marijuana has been legalised in the UK for medical use.

The only UK licence to use Marijuana for medical purposes has been granted to GW Pharmaceuticals.

Check out the website at :-

GW Pharmaceutical

The company have produced medicines to help Multiple Sclerosis suffers, which have already been approved for sale in Canada.

Is this a major softening of the UKs anti-Marijuana laws, or yet more mixed signals from the UK Government?

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main thing to look out for, That spray gets you hella high, but you dont get to smoke it

i was offerd the sprays that are on trial at the moment there is a few catches that have not been made public they have taken the high out of them and also have taken the mellow effect out i was told by my specialist as i have damaged the nerves in my hand that

(a) i would not be able to smoke during the trial
(b) they could not garentee against side effects from pills currently trialing
(c) could not garentee the real spray as they were using a gazebo as well
(which means u could get the spray or something else)
(d) i would have to travel to london every 2 weeks

although the sprays sound good i also enjoy the high and not being able to smoke would definately not last long.

also the trials are only on for 6 month's and you will be prescribed a furthur 6 month's after then there was no garentee as its only on a trial bases at the moment.....

If they do ever legalise it so that people like me can smoke it (I have mental problems), I'll get myself a doctor.

Actually, scratch that. I'll join bupa.

I heard if you go bupa they roll for you

Doesn't surprise any of us. That's probably why they don't want us to have it in the first place.

Looks like the gov have finally come round to thinking it can be beneficial but benefitted the pharmacutical giants into the bargain.[/quote]

Very interesting.

skunkushybrid said:

If they do ever legalise it so that people like me can smoke it (I have mental problems), I'll get myself a doctor.

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if they leagalised cannabis alcohol and tobacco sales would drop. Which is one of the governments biggest earners. As cannabis can be grown by almost anyone it would be harder to tax. I think if cannabis was harder to grow and easier to tax it could well be legal. Cannabis has many uses medically and can be made into high quality paper, material to make rope and clothing and can also made in to oil that can be used as fuel. The more we use up our natural resources on earth. The more chance we will be forced to grow weed 4 our survival in the future . Its the king of the forest.

The English government wants to legalize weed but they cannot.
This is because of trade agreements with America.
They have gotten around this by having test areas for decriminalizations for users in certain areas of London and other major city's.

The police mostly turn a blind eye to small amounts found on users with several chiefs of police in our country calling for legalization of drugs from a users point of view,but not from a dealer or cultivators point of view.
They have increased the penalty for cultivators and dealers which in itself is hypocracy

Hi Jane, waiting for legalisation could be a serious test of your patience. As you state the pharmac. option appears to be a real bummer, which dose not surprise me at all as they would be working with active substance (THC) only and can not cope with the full platoria of ingrediants in Cannabis and probably never will be.
My wife has MS and we have found that a tea brewed from about 3-4 teaspoons of crushed dried plantmaterial (to do this one should be growing ones own), in a litre of water and drawn for about 15min, together with 3-4 teaspoons of sugar (brown), is tremendous in relieving pain, tension and other symtoms of MS and or the drugs used by MS patients, if taken in the late afternoon. Sleep comes easy and naturaly. We know that this dose not have the "stoned" effect of smoking the same quantety of weed but you can get on with your life w/o being stoned out of your braket. If you want to increase the effect and you can stomac the taste simply eat the leaves. This will also improve some of the bowl issues that occur with MS. We are very greatfull for your input as it conferms all our suspitions and reenforces our conviction that no one (Gov. and BallHEADS inc.)has the right to infringe on our personal choice to grow and use the HERB!

SweetMaryJane said:

Having MS myself i was prescribed medication from my GP which was aweful, having to take 2 before bed, and making sure once you took them to be in bed within 15 mins otherwise your legs don't work properly. Then in the morning being unable to wake up and feeling like a zombie for a good part of the day then having to do it all again that very night, i threw them away as i prefer to smoke weed as it doesn't make me feel anything like what the prescribed medication did and can get on with my life.
I wish they would just legalise it.

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