Medicinal cannabis
Having lost my wife back in 1995 to breast cancer, I sure would have loved to have gotten my hands on medicinal cannabis at the time to ease her pain and suffering, instead of watching the conventional drugs take their toll on her. I can't fathom the ignorance and the blatant stupidity of our nation's leaders who still think, it's about the cure and not the easing of suffering, hence the pathetic delay in legalising it's use.
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I'm not sure how many people out there have actually watched a loved one go through end-stage cancer. It's not for the faint hearted. It's gut wrenching. All you want to do is end their suffering with any means possible and if medicinal cannabis can do this, what the heck is wrong with our nation's leaders. How much more time can one spend on looking into the drug to make sure it's going to achieve what it's supposed to do, and if that means a loved one can close their eyes in peace and painfree harmony to their eternal rest, then so be it.
Please, please stop beating around the bush. This drug isn't going to make these people jump up from their bed and shout, yahoo, it's a miracle, I'm cured. It's all about folk that are not going to get better, but instead, will slip away with dignity.
Phillip Jones, Moonbi
I am absolutely appalled at Barnaby Joyce's behaviour regarding the issue of medical cannabis.
In my opinion he is jumping on the bandwagon when it suits him (to gain populist votes), once re-elected, now decides it is not a worthy cause that he should support.
Lucy Haslam has never said or even suggested that medical cannabis is a miracle cure. It isn't. But as a sufferer of severe chronic pain conditions (for over 35yrs now), it does help alleviate pain, helps with nausea, sleep, etc. - which can only be described as a blessing when unable to eat, sleep, communicate, or even enjoy living in this unkind world. Shame, Barnaby, Shame.
Andrea Dinn, Hampton Park
Cannabis is used worldwide to treat many health conditions and has been since time immemorial. Wake up Barnaby and get with the program which would see a new (water economical) crop for our desperate Aussie farmers and assist so many of our population with afflictions of many kinds.
Stephen Johns, Broadwater NSW
When you see a loved one in palliative care and all the medical fraternity offer is more chemo and radiation, despite it doing nothing to stop her bowel cancer, you are witness to the stupidity of the medical mafia rorting taxpayers through exorbitant chemo that often does not work as blind/ignorant doctors oppose cannabis oil that is used and proven to work. Cannabis oil should be available to everyone, but vested interests are turning it into a profiteering cash cow for them and not those who need it.
Mark Dawson, Brisbane
Lucy Haslam is a great public health advocate. Research from around the world continues to show the benefits from the medicinal use of the drug. There is no claim that medicinal cannabis cures any condition. It's a therapy to provide symptomatic relief. Great good could come from genuine, national reform in this. Patients would get assistance managing their conditions, research and development, production of the drug and taxes could all make a positive contribution to society and the economy. Another missed opportunity for our community.
Lorraine Osborn, Coffs Harbour
