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Devon MS victim pleads: Make cannabis legal for medical use | Exeter Express and Echo
Devon MS victim pleads: Make cannabis legal for medical use | Exeter Express and Echo
Indigo Hawk
A Devon multiple sclerosis sufferer is pleading to be allowed to use medical cannabis so he no longer has to buy it illegally on the street.
Indigo Hawk, 43, was diagnosed with MS in 2009, with the indication that he had suffered from the condition for some 23 years.
When he lived in Totnes his GP prescribed the tongue spray Sativex, a cannabis substitute.
This relieved Mr Hawk’s MS pain, cramps and excruciating spasms - which he can suffer every hour.
But, now he lives in Down St Mary, near Crediton, and his GP will not prescribe the treatment.
Instead he has to travel to Totnes or Bristol to buy cannabis from dealers, at £10 a gramme, which he is able to use in his own vapouriser.
“I hate doing buying from dealers and I don’t want to do it but there is no alternative," he said.
"I don’t get high on cannabis and I have never taken it for recreational use. I use it solely to relieve the pain and spasms so that I can lead some sort of normal life with a better quality of life – that’s all I want.”
“ I’m not able to legally medicate myself. It’s such a hassle and expense to get hold of my medication, it would make my life so much easier if I could get my medicine legally. Cannabis is the only thing that works for me and it’s the only reason I'm not in a wheel chair.”
Last month Mr Hawk helped set up the United Patients’ Alliance which is campaigning for the legalisation of cannabis for medical use in the UK.
The campaign received a high-profile boost last week when Government’s drugs minister, Norman Baker, suggested liberalised drug laws should be introduced to legalise the widespread use of cannabis to relieve symptoms of certain medical conditions
Amid concerns that “credible people” were having to break the law to secure the only substance that can help to relieve their condition, Liberal Democrat Mr Baker wrote to the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, to call for a review of the medicinal properties of cannabis
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Marc Emery, Canada's 'Prince Of Pot,' Could Be Back On Canadian Soil Tuesday
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/08/08/marc-emery-return-canada_n_5663303.html
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Canada’s so-called “Prince of Pot” is finally coming home after serving five-year sentence in a U.S. prison.
Marc Emery will “walk across [the border] a completely free man" with "no restrictions" as early as Tuesday, his wife Jodie Emery told The Huffington Post Canada on Friday.
Vancouver-based Emery was extradited in 2010 on American charges that he sold marijuana seeds across the border via his mail-order company. He eventually pleaded guilty conspiracy to manufacture marijuana and was sentenced by a U.S. district court in Seattle.
At the time, the U.S. government labelled him as drug dealer and “the largest supplier of marijuana seeds in the U.S."
Jodie Emery said on Friday that her husband was told by an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer he would be released this week, but admitted it "isn't 100 per cent" as official flight schedules are not disclosed.
“On the U.S. side, the U.S. marshals will have paper work, the Canadian consulate's travel document that they prepared for Marc, the immigration and custom enforcement paperwork, ” said Jodie, explaining the process Marc is expected to go through next week.
“And the U.S. marshals will take Marc to the Canadian border crossing and say 'Here we have a deportee, here is his paperwork, you deal with him. He's yours.'”
The couple plan to embark on a cross-Canada tour beginning Sept. 8 with the goal tounseat the Conservative government in next year’s election.
“The intent will be to impress upon the Canadian cannabis culture to get out and vote – and vote against the currently-governing prohibitionist Conservative party,” Marc wrote in a January blog post from prison.
But the couple's post-prison honeymoon may be short-lived.
The 56-year-old's return comes just as federal parties are ramping up their election campaign rhetoric and assembling party platforms; opposition parties may be weary of tying themselves to high-profile pot activists like the Emerys.
“Political parties, don’t as a rule like to be associated with controversial figures, especially those who have served jail time,” political strategist Marcel Wieder told CBC News.
The Emerys plan to hold a press conference in Toronto Wednesday and another in Vancouver on August 17.
A party will also be thrown outside Cannabis Culture headquarters in Vancouver’s Victory Square to celebrate Marc’s return to Canada.
With files from Althia Raj
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