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Letter: Court ordeal over cannabis 'unjust'
Alun Buffry, Legalise Cannabis Alliance East Anglian Daily Times
Friday 24 Mar 2000 COURT ORDEAL OVER CANNABIS 'UNJUST' Although pleased that MS sufferer Thomas Yates was found not guilty of the 'crime' of growing and using cannabis to ease his symptoms (EADT, March 18th) we are saddened that he was ever dragged before a jury in the first place. We were further saddened to read that another MS sufferer, Lesley Gibson, is due to appear before another jury for her use of cannabis to help her deal with the "awful afflictions" associated with the disease (EADT March 20). The whole concept of taking people before the courts for growing and using a plant that clearly benefits them, is in itself enough to make one ill with despair. Recent evidence, from results of experimentation using cannabis to treat mice injected with MS, does confirm the usefulness of the plant, but what a shame that the Government prefers such experimentation in the laboratory to listening to living, breathing and suffering members of the human race. It is surely about time that cannabis was legalised and utilised in its many beneficial ways. Any talk of possible health risk from the use of the plant should be kept amoungst the health service. Such such risks should not be a matter of law, but for the doctors to decide. After all, common and dangerous drugs such as alcohol and tobacco, that kill many thousands each year, are not banned, so why should cannabis be prohibited when it kills none. sincerely, Alun Buffry Legalise Cannabis Alliance Norwich
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