A very successful medical revolution

By Christopher Kennedy  

In a pretty pathetic ‘exclusive’ in today’s Guardian we hear the same old rubbish about cannabis. From people trying to make a living out of making cannabis sound like an evil drug came forth the surprising statistic that 200 people a year have adverse affects. No deaths, but adverse affects.

In the last five years there have been over a million prescriptions of cannabis in Australia, and if only a couple of hundred have adverse affects (and still no spike in the dreaded number of schizophrenics), we are talking about a very successful medical revolution.

The major complaint of the article was that cannabis being sold was too high in THC. Also, that there was no medical evidence that in many cases it works.

There was no comment in the Guardian as to why people prefer the higher THC. There was no credence given to the vast numbers of people who have come off more dangerous drugs. There was no mention of the amount of money not going to the drug companies (research in the States suggests that 1 to 2 billion dollars was wiped off the drug companies worth for every state in America that legalized).

All we have is the words ‘exclusive’. Why not try to be exclusive and face the facts, the people you are interviewing have a vested interest to cannabis looking bad.

It is this type of intellectualizing that is a product of the isolation doctors in Australia enjoy. Same as in Singapore where one freak of a doctor didn’t like vaping so that whole island isn’t allowed to.

In England and America, with borders close by, people are offered choice of provider and no silly nonsense about pricing, as it will just go to the black market.

It’s time these doctors of medicine understood they are not God, with cannabis being made equal for everyone.