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Former nurse from North East England is fighting to make medicinal cannabis legal

Submitted by Marijuana News on Wed, 06/17/2015 - 05:17

Expert peers will on Wednesday claim cannabis should be rescheduled so it can be prescribed by doctors for medicinal use

A mum crippled by pain will have a national spotlight shone on her fight to take medicinal cannabis.

Former nurse Lara Smith is one of just a handful of people prescribed Bedrocan for spinal arthritis but must travel to Holland every three months, running a customs gauntlet, to pick up her supply.

But today the House of Lords will hear from experts how re-scheduling cannabis could help thousands of other people suffering from debilitating illnesses, including MS.

Cannabis is currently under Schedule 1 of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 act, which means it is classed by the Government as conventionally having no medical use.

However leading experts in the House of Lords have listened to Lara and the handful of others who have had to get political help to...

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