(AUS) NSW Considers Cannabis for Terminally Ill

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A NSW parliamentary inquiry has recommended that people with a terminal illness have access to crude cannabis.

If adopted by the state government, the recommendation would allow patients with specific medical conditions to possess and use up to 15 grams of dry cannabis.

But they would not be able to grow their own cannabis and would need to buy the drug from illegal dealers.

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http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1766686/NSW-considers-cannabis-for-terminally-ill
 
Yeah I saw pretty much the same article in the SMH. At least its a step in the right direction. People have said we are what 10 yrs behind America in alot of trends, so I can see cannabis possibly being legalised in some places here eventually, we might have to wait a while tho.

A NSW parliamentary committee has recommended the medical use of cannabis for people with terminal illness and AIDS.
If adopted by the government, the measure will allow patients to use up to 15 grams of dry cannabis or its equivalent in cannabis products.
Committee chairwoman Sarah Mitchell, a Nationals MP, said the committee had unanimously supported the use of cannabis-based products or prescription use after considering scientific evidence that cannabis has particular value in the treatment of pain.
She said federal government approval to prescribe cannabis for a small target group should be extended to other groups including patients with terminal illness and AIDS.
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"We recognise the risks and negative effects of crude cannabis use, particularly via smoking, and by no means do we endorse the recreational use of cannabis," she said.
"However, the committee considers that on the basis of the available evidence, providing for a very small and specific group of patients to use crude cannabis products for medical purposes legally is both appropriate and compassionate."
Ms Mitchell said the committee concluded that people who are at the end of their lives should not be criminalised for taking steps to relieve severe pain or to stimulate their appetites.
"These people should not be subject to the humiliation and stress of arrest and appearing in court," she said.
The parliamentary committee comprises two members of the National Party, one from the Liberal Party, one from Labor, one from the Greens and one from the Shooters and Fishers Party.


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/cannabis-...ps-approval-20130515-2jlur.html#ixzz2TKZqkC1K
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I think it's time we got over the stigma of marijuana. I don't even smoke anymore, but its probably safer than any drug you would get from a pharmaceutical corporation.
 
^ Neither do I, but I rekon people should be able to buy it if they wont to legally, and use it as much as they like, I'm pretty sure it's no more dangerous than alcohol, tobacco, pharmaceuticals and they are all legal, so why not tax cannabis and make the country some decent tax off it instead of letting who ever grows it make the profits tax free.
 
All this suggestion is about is not wasting money on prosecuting possession charges on people who are likely to die soon anyway. This is pretty fucked IMO.
 
Maybe if they can legally smoke it, they can legally purchase it and the dealers would be protected in some weird way? Idk, wishful thinking.
 
Nope. According to the article they would still need illegal sources. :|
 
Supply the burning issue for medical marijuana

The chairwoman of a parliamentary committee that's recommending the legalisation of marijuana for medical use says supply remains a stumbling block.

If the committee's recommendations were adopted, people with AIDs or a terminal illness would be allowed to posses 15 grams of cannabis for medicinal use.

But the person who sells them the drug could still be charged.

Nationals' MP Sarah Mitchell says it's an issue the inquiry didn't have time to address.

"The supply issue and where they buy it is the really tricky part," she said.

"We've made a recommendation that the government needs to look more closely at that area, because we couldn't find a way in our timeframe to come up with a way to legally purchase the cannabis without being in contradiction of not only state laws, but potentially federal and international treaty obligations as well."

Suffolk Park man Michael Beasley says he risked criminal charges to supply his dying partner with cannabis 20 years ago.

"I was buying up to an ounce of pot a week just so that he could actually sleep," he said.

"It would make him get the munchies and want something to eat, and back in those late stages anything that he ate was beneficial.

"I mean he was six foot four and 53 kilos when he died."

Nimbin's Hemp Embassy says the medical use of marijuana should be a health issue, not a political one.

The embassy's Michael Balderstone says the scheme would allow proper research into the benefits of the drug.
"There's no doubt that cannabis has great healing qualities," he said.

"This is coming out quite clearly from America and Canada, where people have had time to try it.

"They're suggesting... if this is adopted in three years we review it, in three years we'll have some terrific results and encouraging reports.

"They need absolute proof rather than anecdotal stuff it seems.

"I think 90 per cent of the public would support medical cannabis for people who are really sick.

"It works better for them than pharmaceuticals and it's approved by a doctor.

"I mean doctors are the people to be deciding this surely, rather than politicians or police."

Topics: health-policy, drug-offences, drug-use, lismore-2480, coffs-harbour-2450, port-macquarie-2444

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-16/legal-pot-follo/4693602
 
That applies to all of us, the diagnosis is life, the prognosis is death, for every last one of us.
 
Its so funny how some people are so weary about using marijuana for its "healing properties", but gladly shove any pharmaceutical drug down there throats without even knowing whats in it.
 
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