New South Wales to consider allowing medical cannabis to suffering patients.
With so much data showing the medicinal benefits of cannabis, who can be against it?
Studies all around the world have shown and are showing that the propaganda that got cannabis banned worldwide is just that, propaganda. The basis for making cannabis illegal in the United States, where prohibition originated and then spread outward, is the scheduling. Cannabis is considered a schedule 1 narcotic in the U.S. which means that it is harmful and has absolutely no feasible medical value, which is now continuing to be proven false. Ironically, cocaine is listed as a schedule 2 drug, which technically means that the government considers it to be less harmful than cannabis. Seriously? Yes. So, with all the new data coming out, you would expect the old way of thinking to phase itself out, but there are still many people who consider this natural healing herb to be a harmful substance on par with drugs like heroin and methamphetamine.
A study out of Spain recently concluded that cannabis could be used and an effective natural treatment for cancer. Two scientists from the San Francisco bay area also confirmed that cannabis is a powerful anti cancer. Would you believe that there was even a U.S. government study on the effects and uses for canabinoids found in this plant that concluded its usefulness in fighting cancer? That is the same government that created and harshly enforces prohibition of this herb based on the assumption that it has zero medicinal benefits.
With the recent full scale legalization in Colorado and Washington states, the debate on how to approach cannabis policy has heated up, not just in the U.S., but now other countries are reconsidering their policies regarding cannabis. New South Wales, Australia is considering taking steps to make cannabis available to sufferers of serious diseases such as cancer, aids, and multiple sclerosis. A NSW parliamentary inquiry committee held open hearings in March and are expected to deliver their report on the feasibility of using cannabis medically and the legal implications of doing so on may 17th. Sally Crossing, deputy chair of the advocacy group Cancer Voices Australia, recommended to the inquiry committee that cannabis should be allowed to be used legally for medical purposes. She mentioned the usefulness of cannabis for pain and vomiting in cancer patients and the added benefit of it causing very few mild side effects. "There is enough evidnce, there's enough experience in other countries to say that if we do this in a sensible way, with appropriate safeguards, we can help a lot of people who are suffering, not only at the ends of their lives," said Crossing.
Some opposition is still entrenched, and the NSW police department has expressed their concerns that cannabis use will increase if this happens. If it is legalized for medical use, they would preffer it to be a refined extract form that can be taken as a spray or a pill rather than the original form. All forms of cannabis are currently listed as illegal substances in NSW law, but the tide seems to be turning with more and more data from seriously ill patients who benefit greatly from using it.
Source: www.news.com.au
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