An Angry Rant .....sorry guys n gals
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 7:08 pm
I am VERY ANGRY, IN AGONY & feel BETRAYED!!!!!
Why????..
In January this year I was very heartened by this news: The Government understands the value of cannabis medicines and has allowed Sativex, a British export, cannabis-based, medicine to be imported from Canada on a temporary basis. Or rather it has said Sativex can be imported under the caveat;
From the Home Office: How to be prescribed Sativex
Your GP will need to apply to this office to prescribe Sativex
to you.
Your GP will need to provide the following:
a) your personal details - full name, address, age, gender
b) a brief indication of the clinical need
c) the dosage total amount required (the manufacturer,
GW Pharmaceuticals can help with this information - telephone 01980 557026 or email enquiries@gwpharm.com).
Your GP can forward this information to me at:
Mike Evans
Home Office, Drugs Branch,
6th Floor, Peel Building,
2 Marsham Street,
London.
SW1P 4DF
At last I thought, I no longer have to risk imprisonment or pay through the nose to get a medicine, which works.
So off I went in my wheelie pram to my GP, she?d never heard of it. I presented her with the information, which she?d have to read later because she was busy but she?d get back to me. I?m a reasonable guy so off I went. Three weeks later I chased her up. No, she?d not had time to read it but the ?Practice? had referred my request to my Consultant Neurologist. A chance then!
Yesterday morning, 7 months later I get a phone call??.after due consideration with my consultant & PCT, the practice had decided that they felt unable to support my application. Why? I asked. Can?t discuss it with you says she. Our follow up letter will explain.
Well it arrived today, it would seem my GP practice & PCT are scared shitless of the word CANNABIS & will not be complicit in my possible addiction & harm. Not to mention the exorbitant costs!
So they will not entertain applying on my behalf. And that is their full & final decision.
Mind you, they did add that if I wish they are happy to prescribe me Diazepam & or Tamazepam for my pain/spasticity! What happened the Hippocratic Oath?
So I can?t squiff a few droplets of HMG regulated THC under my tongue but they are delighted to shell out highly addictive class A drugs like smarties.
I obviously have a choice??..take the smarties & become a dependant zombie, risk plods wrath & continue to buy my weed or take up gardening in my conservatory!
If the British pharmaceutical companies decided to grow & sell quality cannabis, there would be a massive scramble in the Government to get the drug legalised, marketed & taxable. A pity BAT or B&H aren?t involved.
The problem is, it is reasonably cheap and anyone can grow their own. And Teflon Tone knows only too well there is no profit in that!
Q. Does anyone know of an MS sufferer who has been granted a Sativex prescription?
**Before I get flamed as irresponsible???..
Govt Advice: Those who may be considered at risk, young adult males of poor working class, (this alone smacks of prejudice); are to be protected from cannabis, which has been proven to be anything but cannabis, as the substance known as resin or Rocky is a commercial and contaminated product. Therefore, a socio-economic class is further pilloried through the criminality associated with the dealers and users. The shout from the mental health psychosis specialists are also flawed, by not understand the difference with the natural herbal product and such chemical mishaps made to sell as cannabis.
Why????..
In January this year I was very heartened by this news: The Government understands the value of cannabis medicines and has allowed Sativex, a British export, cannabis-based, medicine to be imported from Canada on a temporary basis. Or rather it has said Sativex can be imported under the caveat;
From the Home Office: How to be prescribed Sativex
Your GP will need to apply to this office to prescribe Sativex
to you.
Your GP will need to provide the following:
a) your personal details - full name, address, age, gender
b) a brief indication of the clinical need
c) the dosage total amount required (the manufacturer,
GW Pharmaceuticals can help with this information - telephone 01980 557026 or email enquiries@gwpharm.com).
Your GP can forward this information to me at:
Mike Evans
Home Office, Drugs Branch,
6th Floor, Peel Building,
2 Marsham Street,
London.
SW1P 4DF
At last I thought, I no longer have to risk imprisonment or pay through the nose to get a medicine, which works.
So off I went in my wheelie pram to my GP, she?d never heard of it. I presented her with the information, which she?d have to read later because she was busy but she?d get back to me. I?m a reasonable guy so off I went. Three weeks later I chased her up. No, she?d not had time to read it but the ?Practice? had referred my request to my Consultant Neurologist. A chance then!
Yesterday morning, 7 months later I get a phone call??.after due consideration with my consultant & PCT, the practice had decided that they felt unable to support my application. Why? I asked. Can?t discuss it with you says she. Our follow up letter will explain.
Well it arrived today, it would seem my GP practice & PCT are scared shitless of the word CANNABIS & will not be complicit in my possible addiction & harm. Not to mention the exorbitant costs!
So they will not entertain applying on my behalf. And that is their full & final decision.
Mind you, they did add that if I wish they are happy to prescribe me Diazepam & or Tamazepam for my pain/spasticity! What happened the Hippocratic Oath?
So I can?t squiff a few droplets of HMG regulated THC under my tongue but they are delighted to shell out highly addictive class A drugs like smarties.
I obviously have a choice??..take the smarties & become a dependant zombie, risk plods wrath & continue to buy my weed or take up gardening in my conservatory!
If the British pharmaceutical companies decided to grow & sell quality cannabis, there would be a massive scramble in the Government to get the drug legalised, marketed & taxable. A pity BAT or B&H aren?t involved.
The problem is, it is reasonably cheap and anyone can grow their own. And Teflon Tone knows only too well there is no profit in that!
Q. Does anyone know of an MS sufferer who has been granted a Sativex prescription?
**Before I get flamed as irresponsible???..
Govt Advice: Those who may be considered at risk, young adult males of poor working class, (this alone smacks of prejudice); are to be protected from cannabis, which has been proven to be anything but cannabis, as the substance known as resin or Rocky is a commercial and contaminated product. Therefore, a socio-economic class is further pilloried through the criminality associated with the dealers and users. The shout from the mental health psychosis specialists are also flawed, by not understand the difference with the natural herbal product and such chemical mishaps made to sell as cannabis.