The drug laws in this county need a complete overhaul.The cannabis laws in particular.The cannabis laws are absolutely ridiculous. It is completely legal to posses cannabis seeds.It is also legal to sell and advertise for sale cannabis seeds, but if you put these seeds in a pot and attempt to grow them, you face upto 14 years in prison.Absolute madness.Also, if you are prosecuted for having £10 worth of cannabis, you face a lifetime ban from the U S A and other countries.A complete ban on cannabis is crazy, it is an effective painkiller, but I cannot be prescribed it because it is illegal.There is a type of cannabis painkiller medicine available, it's called Sativex, but can only be prescribed legally to MS sufferers, and only on private prescription.It costs approx £450 for 3x 90 spray bottles.Cannabis is an incredibly effective painkiller for my type of pain, but it's illegal to precribe it.Instead, I have to be prescribed oxycodone, which is a synthetic heroin.So why can I legally be prescibed a synthetic class A drug, but not a synthetic class B drug ? It makes no sense at all.In a lot of states in America it I s now legal to buy and own "medical"cannabis.Doctors write out a prescription and the patient takes this to a registered cannabis shop where they can choose which strain of cannabis they want.The cannabis is sold in bud or bush form and can be smoked or baked into cookies.We need some form of access to legal "medical" cannabis like this in this country, and for gods sake get the cannabis laws sorted out properly. |