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A PARAPLEGIC man’s request to prove to Health officials that cannabis is a better painkiller than conventional pharmaceuticals ‘would never be accepted’, the Health Minister has said.
Health Minister Andrew Green has responded after 28-year-old Islander Daniel Clark, who is wheelchair bound following a motorbike accident ten years ago, offered to prove to doctors that cannabis was better at alleviating his pain than prescription drugs.
Mr Clark, who says his pain is so severe he has considered selling his home and moving to a place where the class B drug is legal, has twice offered to be admitted to hospital for a two-week period in which he would spend a week using cannabis and a week on pharmaceutical painkillers.
Senator Green says that although he sympathises with Mr Clark’s predicament the current evidence was that cannabis can have long-term negative impacts on users’ health.
‘That [the test] would never be...
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