Written by Suffolk Nurse Calls Out The U.K. Government In Support Of Full Scale Cannabis Legalization:
Nurses from this region of the U.K. are leading a controversial campaign to legalize medical cannabis. Tracey Risebrow, the vice-chair of the Royal College of Nursing’s Suffolk branch, says the drug should be made available for the treatment of some health conditions. She’ll put forward a motion backing the plan at their national conference in Belfast on the weekend.
“There’s lots of evidence out there, that this is good for patients, particularly MS patients. As nurses, we should always be doing the best for our patients” Tracey Risebrow vice-chair of the RCN Suffolk Branch declared, “It seems a bit unfair for something that could benefit them to not be available. No medicine ever works for everybody, but there is another option there.”
Five years ago, Deryn Blackwell from Watton in Norfolk was told he had just days to live after being diagnosed with two rare cancers. Deryn had undergone multiple rounds of chemotherapy and radiotherapy following his diagnosis at the age of 10, but doctors said nothing else could be done to save him. His mum Callie gave him cannabis oil to alleviate his suffering and remarkably he survived. Here’s an awesome YouTube video of how this patient’s mother gave him Cannabis with the help of nurses that cared. She saved his life.
Before Cannabis Daryn was looking at a very grim future - if one at all:
Deryn believes the drug helped to keep him alive. He said: “I do believe the cannabis helped me to stay alive. “There’s was nothing else going on apart from this tincture that mum was giving me, so there is no other thing that I can think of for it be other than the cannabis.”
Legalizing cannabis is controversial in the U.K. because of worries of addiction and the impact on mental health. It seems that they’re a tad behind the U.S. and other countries when it comes to research that proves that both of those worries are by far secondary to what happens when the body is deficient in Endocannabinoids. Deryn’s mum has been campaigning to legalize the drug for four years. She works at CBD Brothers near Bury Saint Edmunds – a company that makes legal cannabis-based products in the UK.
“We are the biggest exporters of medical cannabis in this country. Yet according to our government, it has no medicinal benefits. It’s infuriating, if we can be the largest exporters of cannabis then why on earth can’t we have it here?” Callie Blackwell, his mother went on, upset at U.K. policy “We need something to start a discussion, we need somebody to start pushing this to get the first steps taken to hopefully gain full legalization.”
The Home Office says cannabis in its raw form has no medicinal or legitimate use in the UK.
In a statement, they said: “We recognize that people with chronic pain and debilitating illnesses are looking to alleviate their symptoms. “However, it is important that medicines are thoroughly tested to ensure they meet rigorous standards before being placed on the market so that doctors and patients are assured of their efficacy, quality and safety. “Cannabis is listed as a schedule 1 drug as in its raw form it currently has no recognized medicinal or legitimate use in the UK beyond for potential research and is therefore subject to strict control restrictions. “
Well, what do I say to all of this from America? Very simply put… we need the U.N. to hold a treaty convention on Cannabinoid Medicine so the entire world recognizes it. It’s bad enough to see the U.S. in such a bizarre scenario. While one state is completely anti cannabis with rigid laws that imprison anyone with even a seed on them, the next state over has recreational laws that likely have put medicinal patients in a quandary. The next state over may only allow CBD from hemp – causing a very controversial situation. “I believe the government wants to continue the ongoing debates over psycho-activity in cannabinoids” says world renown cannabis expert Dr. David Bearman, founder of the American Academy of Cannabinoid Medicine, “It’s a bold way to marginalize what the plant and components of it can do in relation to what pharmaceuticals do to the human body.”
And he’s right. Without a doubt, the U.S. government is watching as other nations have their people scurrying to fight for legalization, and for the most part to no avail. Even in the U.S., the division between the ‘hemp’ people and the ‘Whole Plant’ crowd continues with ongoing debates over which is better.
IT’S ALL CANNABIS!! We all need to see through what’s going on. I believe that policymakers in D.C. are kicking back watching social media and seeing their plan work. They created a division in the large movement for the end of prohibition. While creating a grey area that CBD was NOT a schedule 1 drug the gap between the hempy happy people and those wanting all cannabinoids grew larger. NOW? We’re at a point where all of us need to join together and unify. Industrial hemp is indeed Cannabis hemp. Its origins are from the Indian Hemp of the 1800’s we see all over old Tincture bottles. Our government made the division and did not allow it to help anyone – only hurt the movement. Let’s all join together and realize that this is one movement for the end of prohibition and not just in the U.S. – we need the end of this type of control over our freedoms globally.
Mike Robinson, Medicinal Cannabis Patient
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