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Medicinal Pot May Be Allowed 
Posted by FoM on March 23, 2000 at 23:17:31 PT
By Tom Baldwin
Source: The Times
CANNABIS may be available legally for medicinal purposes under a Cabinet compromise on the Government's policy towards drugs. The Prime Minister is prepared to agree to change the law to allowing people suffering from conditions such as multiple sclerosis to use the drug once human trials confirm that the drug can alleviate their symptoms. 
However, he has rejected Mo Mowlam's proposals for a Royal Commission on drugs, which he feared might pave the way for the general de-criminalisation of cannabis. Ms Mowlam, who has admitted that she experimented with the cannabis in the 1960s, wants a full review of the 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act, which critics say is now out of date. She has backed calls from Keith Hellawell, the Government's drugs "czar", for the police to concentrate their efforts on the war against hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin. MS sufferers have long argued that smoking and eating cannabis helps to alleviate their condition and that jailing or fining them is an infringment of their rights. Research on mice at University College London, has found that the drug can ease some MS symptoms as well as prevent muscle aches and tremors. Published: March 24 2000 BritianCopyright 2000 Times Newspapers Ltd. Related Article: Ministers Get Whiff of Reality in Drugs Debate http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread4682.shtmlHague's Wacky Curb on Cannabishttp://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread4640.shtmlLegalise Cannabis Hint From Mowlam http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread4624.shtmlM0'S Drugs Stance Risks Blair Wrathhttp://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread4451.shtml 
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Comment #2 posted by Pat on March 24, 2000 at 06:59:04 PT
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Comment #1 posted by Mac Wizard on March 24, 2000 at 02:46:33 PT:
Legalising the use of Cannabis for Medicine
It's about time, I have never been able to work out why doctors can prescribe Methadone for Heroin addicts but not Cannabis for MS sufferers. My argument has never been about recreational use, I can't be bothered to force the issue, we know that smoking of any kind will effect you, but come on, these people are in pain, there's not a solution to it, but we can ease the suffering with a simple plant.
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