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An estimated 11,000 seriously ill New Zealanders
use cannabis for pain relief and other serious medical conditions.
While the Misuse of Drugs Act already allows the
Minister of Health to approve the medicinal use of
cannabis, not a single application has ever been approved. The process is too onerous and cumbersome and should be changed.
Doctors are being ignored and patients
arrested and often jailed. They are forced to
take addictive and more harmful prescriptions
drugs (such as morphine) rather than a natural
herb that has been described by The Lancet as
the “aspirin of the 21st century”.
According to a TV3 poll (Nov. 06) sixty-three percent of Kiwis support legalising the medicinal use of cannabis.
Parliament’s Health Select Committee has previously noted that “cannabis has been shown to be effective in providing relief for some medical disorders ... the issue of medicinal use should be dealt with independently from the legislation regulating general use” (Cannabis inquiry
report, 2003)
Modern research suggests that cannabis is a valuable aid in the treatment of a wide range of clinical applications:
Alzheimer’s Disease
Anti-tumour effects
Appetite stimulation, eg for AIDS wasting
syndrome, anorexia or dementia
Arthritis
Asthma
Brain injury/Stroke
Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis
Depression
Eating disorders
Epilepsy
Fibromyalgia
Glaucoma
High blood pressure and Hypertension
Migraine
Movement disorders, eg Parkinson’s disease
Multiple Sclerosis
Nail Patella Syndrome
Nausea associated with cancer chemotherapy or taking other medications
Neuroprotection, eg following a stroke
Pain - especially neuropathic pain
Phantom limb pain
Schizophrenia
Spinal cord injury
Tourette’s Syndrome
The Green's Medical Marijuana bill allows any other condition “where the use of cannabis may
alleviate the pain and suffering associated with that condition or the treatment of that condition”.
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