My wife suggests that I vlog about the process that you need to go through in order to obtain access to cannabis related medicines on prescription, so my day is spent researching and scripting the ludicrous hoops through which sick people are expected to jump in order to access medicine that is both effective and safe.
I apologise for banging on (and on) about cannabis, but this is important. Sick people (who know that cannabis can help them) are being denied legal access to this medicine on the grounds that there haven’t been sufficient studies to prove its efficacy for various ailments. Of course there haven’t been enough studies – our government have denied that cannabis has any medicinal value, and placed it in Schedule 1 so that it is nigh on impossible to carry out these necessary studies. The people who use cannabis medicinally (and I am one) know that it is effective for them, and at last the government has admitted that it does have medicinal value (by rescheduling cannabis-derived medicines into Schedule 2, whereby your doctor is allowed to prescribe them), but obtaining these medications on prescription is a complicated and lengthy process designed to be daunting and offputting – and all of this for a plant that is known to be massively less harmful than either tobacco or alcohol. It makes me angry, and it ought to make you angry, too!