Marijuana as Medicine
"Yet there is no problem with other drugs like alcohol or tobacco despite the fact that this nation is coughing, spitting and vomiting its way to oblivion."
(Paddy Doyle, November, 1999)
Paddy Doyle suffers from a rare disability - Generalised Dystonia - an involuntary movement condition that affects his entire body causing violent spasms and incessant movement of his entire body. Some time ago a Consultant Neurologist suggested that he might consider taking Marijuana under medical supervision
as all other drugs which he had tried had failed to relieve his movement. The Consultant wrote to the Minister for Health and the Minister for Justice but his request was refused on the grounds that Marijuana is a Class 1 drug and that there was "
no evidence to suggest that marijuana was effective in the treatment of any disability."
