Vrae, you go girl! I'm glad you have access to it and find it helps - that's what we need. Shame you're not a real hippie type though lol...I could have sent you a tie-dye skirt from our local market...
My issue is that I know I could 'get hold of some' as it were, if I asked around enough in the seedy pubs in town....but I would be breaking the law in doing so, risking ridicule for my family, risking my future 'relationship' (that's a joke
) with the NHS, and getting a fine and a criminal record... I also wouldn't know what on earth I was getting - could be low CBD high THC or low THC high CBD. I'd have no idea, and I don't WANT to get buzzed or high, stink my house out or have to buy a bong!
That's the big issue - if they don't legally control some medical form of the drug for those of us who need it for a condition it helps, then we would be forced to try to find that same help illegally and at risk to our health. It's madness.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!! Oh I envy you Vrae, I wish the UK had more sense with this. I've heard Sativex isn't even much cop in terms of it's effects - that it's not as good as it could be because the manufacturers aren't using the best 'recipe'. Plus to get your doc to prescribe Sativex, you have to have already tried all the powerful narcotic meds and failed. Well I don't want to put my body, my brain or my family through two years of me on a morphine cocktail. Surely MMJ is kinder to your body than morphine and it's other chums?
Half of me wants to ask my pain specialist for it, half of me worries that I'll be labelled as a drug-seeker because I've even asked about it.....
The world is run by money and big companies who control governments and the laws they put into place. Very rarely do governments do things for the good of their citizens - they do things because they are being paid to, or bribed, or blackmailed; or because it will give them influence over someone/something. It's sad but true the world over. The alternative is a Utopian dream that will never happen while money can get its owners so much power and influence....
BUT....we live in hope
Bram.