{"id":7999,"date":"2022-06-09T06:03:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T06:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booksofall.com\/ru\/?post_type=product&#038;p=7999"},"modified":"2022-06-09T06:03:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T06:03:19","slug":"britains-patient-outlaws","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.booksofall.com\/ru\/britains-patient-outlaws\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s patient outlaws"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 id=\"standfirst\" class=\"article__standfirst\">Medical cannabis is legal in places as diverse as Canada, Uruguay, Israel and Jamaica. But could legalisation work in the UK? Katharine Quarmby finds out.<\/h4>\n<aside class=\"article__aside\">n a cold spring evening I catch a fast train from London to Maidstone in Kent, to meet Clark French, a young man with multiple sclerosis. I\u2019m joining him and his companions from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.upalliance.org\/\">United Patients Alliance (UPA)<\/a>\u00a0on a road tour of the UK. The group French founded last year has one, on the face of it, simple mission: the legalisation of medical cannabis in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>I arrive a little early at the old Victorian building where the UPA is holding its meeting. French arrives five minutes later, smiling and leaning on a stick, and we go inside. While Alex, another activist, fires up the tea urn, French explains that he has also been firing up, discreetly, nearby. He tells me that the pain, tremors and spasms he experiences from his multiple sclerosis can be controlled with cannabis. Without it, he says, his ability to get out of bed in the mornings, let alone do things like speak at meetings, would be greatly reduced.<\/p>\n<p>Although many UPA members live with painful conditions such as arthritis, multiple sclerosis and Crohn\u2019s disease, they are campaigning hard on this single issue, eschewing the wider issue of wholesale legalisation. In his speech to the meeting, French stresses that language could help shift public perception \u2013 that \u201cpatients\u201d should talk about \u201cmedicating\u201d and refer to cannabis as a \u201cmedicine\u201d rather than as a recreational \u201cdrug\u201d. \u201cMultiple sclerosis took so much from me,\u201d says French. \u201cBut if prohibition wasn\u2019t there, I could have my life back\u2026 we all deserve it. That\u2019s my motivation.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>Reference:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Hansard for the proceedings of the Misuse of Drugs Bill through Parliament: the most interesting debates are listed below, all worth a read as the Act is still law today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hansard.millbanksystems.com\/commons\/1970\/mar\/25\/misuse-of-drugs-bill\">Commons 2nd Reading, 25 March 1970<\/a>\u00a0(including an amendment to include tobacco)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hansard.millbanksystems.com\/commons\/1970\/jul\/16\/misuse-of-drugs-bill-1\">Commons 2nd Reading, 16 July 1970<\/a>\u00a0(re-introduced after the general election and change of government)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hansard.millbanksystems.com\/lords\/1971\/jan\/14\/misuse-of-drugs-bill\">Lords 2nd Reading, 14 January 1971<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hansard.millbanksystems.com\/lords\/1971\/feb\/04\/misuse-of-drugs-bill-1\">Lords amendment, 4 February 1971<\/a>\u00a0(an amendment to make cannabis Class D).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Suzanne Taylor&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk\/834551\/1\/550389.pdf\">excellent PhD thesis on how cannabis has been seen in the UK<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/discovery.ucl.ac.uk\/20363\/\">report from an excellent seminar on the medicalisation of cannabis<\/a>\u00a0held by the Wellcome Trust and UCL.<\/li>\n<li>A\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tdpf.org.uk\/resources\/drug-policy-timeline\">useful timeline on international drug policy<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A recent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jama.jamanetwork.com\/article.aspx?articleid=2338251\">meta-review of scientific studies of the efficacy of medical cannabis<\/a>, published in the\u00a0<em>Journal of the American Medical Association<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>To understand more about the history of re-introducing cannabis as a medicine in the USA, a good place to start is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/aliceolearyrandall.wordpress.com\/\">the blog of Alice O<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/aliceolearyrandall.wordpress.com\/\">\u2019Leary-Randall<\/a>, the so-called \u2018first lady of medical marijuana\u2019.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/More-than-Puff-Smoke-Dunbar\/dp\/1409294099\"><em>More Than a Puff of Smoke\u00a0<\/em><\/a>is an\u00a0interesting (but not very well written) book by Dr Ian Dunbar,\u00a0one of the doctors who prescribed cannabis in the UK and became notorious for doing so.<\/li>\n<li>To understand the case against both medical cannabis and wider legalisation, look at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/learnaboutsam.org\/\">this site<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0Smart Approaches to Marijuana, a US body of professionals dedicated to what they call a \u201cmiddle road between incarceration and legalization\u201c.<\/li>\n<li>The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.upalliance.org\/\">\u00a0United Patients Alliance<\/a>\u00a0is a British group launched last year with the sole aim of legalising cannabis for medical use in the UK.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 750px; border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/online.visual-paradigm.com\/share\/book\/britains-patient-outlaws-zcen6abvi?enforceShowPromotionBar=true\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8011,"template":"","meta":{"_yoast_wpseo_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"Design flipbooks online. 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