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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7This is a serious issue that is fairly suppressed and ignored in general.
I'm getting an Oz of cannabis tonight to bring to a family friend who is suffering from cancer. He is getting Chemotherapy and says that cannabis works better than all the medication they want him to take. Also, his 'medication' is poison, cannabis is fairly natural. BUT, if he wasn't getting it off me he could be running the risk of getting dangerously contaminated cannabis... and all because of the prohibition.
Silly drug act in the interest of multi-national corporations.
Legalise
Last week on 96fm, a woman called in to make an appeal to get a pound of cannabis to make cannabis oil for her son who has brain tumours. She heard about it on the Rick Simpson website. A guy called the show to say he could supply it for 2250euro. Prendivelle allowed the 2 to talk off air and arrange a purchase. THIS IS WRONG. It should be provided for FREE as medicine. But the economy is more important than people with tumors.
Tragic that a government which lets healthy people consume lethal drugs like Alcohol and Tobacco see fit to ban a much less harmful drug like Marijuana for medicinal reasons.
If you give your dying grandmother a double brandy to comfort her last moments everybody would nod their heads in approval.
Give an MS patient a much less harmful drug like Marijuana to ease the pain and you end up in prison.
The law is an ass.
I am someone who no longer is involved with any left wing parties in this country. One of the reasons for this is because they are scared to say anything about legalisation of cannabis even though most of their younger members would have used it themselves. I include SP, Labour, SF, any most of the tiny left groups in this cowardly line up. it is little wonder that most young people in turn ignore these so called 'leaders' of the working and unemployed classes.
Actually, I think the main reason that medical users did not show up in force is because they are growing they're own cannabis and dont want to compromise themselves. However there were a few medical users at the demo. The demo was also orgainsed at a time when people who were on lunch from work could get some of the information, hence the low turn-out of anyone working, like myself.
This was only organised by a couple of people in a short period of time. It is only the beginning of anything that could be called a movement. And I hope it becomes large and outspoken because the issue of arrest and prosecution of cannabis users, medicinal or not, is certainly a question of personal freedom and social justice. The big questions that now needs to me asked are WHY is cannabis still prohibited (as a THC-free hemp plant, a medicinal remedy, and a recreational drug) and WHO is propagating the lies behind the prohibition'of the 'Devils weed'?
Forget about the government thewy are beyond hope and are not open to rational debate on this issue. I think you should lobby a lot of other organisations out there and at least put them on the spot even if they refuse to reply to your letters and phone calls.
I am thinking about the national union of journalists most of whom would smoke themselves anyway. It would be worth trying to get a position from the other Trade Unions as well. You could try people before profit and some of the smaller parties and see if they would go public?
It might be too hot for some of them to take a public stance on it, you might have a better chance with 'mavericks' like eamonn dumphy, george hook, eamonn mccann, peter mcverry, joe higgins, patricia mckenna and nell mccafferty etc they tend to be a bit more courageous when it comes to being outspoken or thinking outside the comfortable consensus that exists on both the left and right side of the status quo here in Ireland.
To the above poster, the unions might actually be a very good way of going about it. Will be brought up at the next meeting.
Thanks