In Reply :
Dear Mr Burrowes,
I would like to draw attention to your comments in the house on 9th May 2011 regarding medicinal cannabis; they have left me questioning the morality of yourself and the government.
Firstly, let me briefly correct you on your remarks, please do take the time to read - they point out the inaccuracy of your comments:
“Stronger strains” - http://homegrownoutlaw.blogspot.com/2011/04/skunk-debunked.html
"Mental illness" - http://www.badscience.net/2007/07/blah-blah-cannabis-blah-blah-blah/
This is wholly inconsequential to the issue however. As someone who has suffered debilitating illness for 21 years, I have had a legacy of prescribed medication that has left me numb, blinded and with paralysis; pharmaceuticals have been ineffective and counterproductive. I am therefore left with two options, prescribed opiates that will leave my organs ravaged, or cannabis which is exponentially more effective and remarkably non toxic (the words of Dr. Lester Grinspoon; Professor Emeritus of Harvard Medical School).
The state can - and does - differentiate between prescribed opiates and street obtained opiates that cause harm through prohibition. I wonder why this simple premiss cannot be grasped when discussing cannabis.
Your suggestion that it is more important to criminalise all persons and person’s interests regarding cannabis actions, than to grant clemency to people like myself is crass and demeaning. This is not how a fair and rational society acts, and indeed this is not how the MoDA1971 is mandated to work in its application.
Your comments have roused discourse within the disabled and chronically ill - not to mention their families who also suffer.
I look forward to hearing your response to this matter.
(Additional - due to a fault at google Blogger, this posting was removed and all comments lost. I'm sorry to all those inconvenienced)
(Additional - due to a fault at google Blogger, this posting was removed and all comments lost. I'm sorry to all those inconvenienced)
