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Introduction
About the use of cannabis as medicine

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GW Pharmaceuticals
About the UK company who may bring a cannabis-based medicine to the market in the next few years.

Health Canada
Information for medical users (pdf document)

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The illnesses cannabis can treat

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THC4MS

THC4MS aimed to supply medicinal cannabis chocolate to bona-fide MS sufferers' throughout the UK in emergency situations only i.e:- their normal supply was exhausted. They were busted in 2005 and sentenced in 2007.

THC4MS bust 2007
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Cannabis reduces symptoms of MS
Lancet report

The claims by medical users that cannabis reduces the symptoms of MS has been confirmed by UK government trials. The study, of more than 600 patients, published in the Lancet medical journal, also provided some evidence that they boosted mobility.

Other physical proof of the drugs effects on symptoms did not emerge however. Slightly more patients on the cannabis extract reported benefits than those on THC, an active compound found in cannabis.

MS sufferers have been claiming these beneficial effects for years, many sufferers break the law buying illegal cannabis and self-help groups such as THC4MS have been supplying sufferers, but they run the risk of arrest and many medical users have been dragged through the courts.

This study shows that cannabis really does make these ill people feel better, these claims cannot be ignored any longer.