In the last 10 years the world has had to get used to the fact that cannabis is medicine and it is probably one that we should have been utilizing for the last hundred years instead of criminalising anyone that either enjoyed it or needed it as an essential medicine to their health. Despite the laws being structured as they are people still use cannabis and often so with their doctors backing, yet they feel they cannot argue for the patients right.
MedicalMarijuana.co.uk is a new website that offers something different to the existing sites about the medical uses of cannabis, it allows an interactive Treatment Diary for patients to keep track of what works for them, either as a way of using cannabis or a particular strain. It also provides an opportunity for patients to explain their conditions to readers all over the UK and the rest of the world that may be experiencing the same situation as others and the site creators hope that this aids patients in finding the best medicine for their health.
The legal status of cannabis is really the biggest issue for most patients, if not all. If a patient is unable to grow cannabis where else are they going to get it? Unfortunately this situation leaves millions of British patients sourcing their medicine from street dealers or commercial grows that don’t quite meet the standard. MedicalMarijuana.co.uk encourages patients to talk about this in their diaries so the world can see what patients really have to suffer through all because of an unjust cannabis policy.
As well as the Treatment Diary MedicalMarijuana.co.uk has great medical blogs with reporting of the latest scientific journals on cannabis and the latest discoveries and evidence on THC and CBD.
MMJ.co.uk has huge support for the UK Cannabis Social Clubs and feels that it is a model that can help provide the help needed for patients seeking a better option that street cannabis that is often inconsistent and below the medical quality needed. By patients and consumers forming non-profit Collectives and growing under a closed-loop model where the medicine is only shared by the members at the cost of its cultivation they can remove themselves from anti-social and criminal chains.
Patient groups in the UK such as the United Patients Alliance (UPA) have contributed to the growing awareness of using cannabis as a medicine for such a vast number of medical conditions and use the scientific evidence to substantiate their information. Find out from the UPA Facebook page if there is an event near you soon.
With this growing awareness comes a need for patients who may not have used cannabis or never used it medically, to be able to find the experiences of others to aid in their own journey. For people with the experience to offer it on a free to use platform is a simple but lasting piece of activism that is really going to help change a life, or many people lives.
Stories that have grabbed the attention of the national press have come from patients sharing their experiences, I know that personally working with patients and having worked in journalism that stories are not found by digging around, they are found by being put in their face. Cannabis stories about the medicinal value and improvement it has made to a patient and their families life get a lot of attention and this is an opportunity to let the world know. If your story hits home MedicalMarijuana.co.uk will help this reach the headlines.
“In January 2014 my mother began regularly ingesting Cannabidiol rich cannabis butter(cannabutter). At that point she could barely move without jabs of pain in her pancreas and liver [from stage 4 cancer]. Even eating was painful. Within days of starting the course of cannabutter, she found she was able to sleep soundly, walk, even ride her beloved horse.”
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