Home | Community | Message Board

Avalon Magic Plants
This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.


Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Shop: Kraken Kratom Kratom Capsules for Sale   Original Sensible Seeds Autoflowering Cannabis Seeds, Bulk Cannabis Seeds   Bridgetown Botanicals Bridgetown Botanicals, CBD Capsules

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
InvisibleDa_Vine
eat me
Male

Registered: 07/03/04
Posts: 300
Loc: jamaica mon
CWA joins fight to legalise cannabis
    #6057421 - 09/13/06 03:00 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/C...7826868003.html

One of the country's most conservative bodies has joined the fight to legalise cannabis for medicinal purposes.

The national convention of the Country Women's Association (CWA) has agreed to lobby governments to assist cannabis trials for the relief of pain in the chronically and terminally ill.

The issue was first raised by the group's Tasmanian branch, which wanted all options available in their health care.

"A lot of our members are dealing with people who are chronically and terminally ill and want easy access to services," incoming president Leslie Young said.

While many anti-drug groups support the CWA push, long term campaigners warned of the dangers of "overblowing" the positive effects of cannabis.

"Anecdotal stories from pot smokers and ad hoc experimentation with cannabis should be rejected by Australian governments and reputable community groups as it is simply dangerous and irresponsible to give false hope to the seriously ill in this way," the Australian delegate to Drug Watch International, Michael Robinson said.

Salvation Army drug and alcohol services spokesman Mike Coleman said his group supported evidence based research and had no moral opposition to trials into the medicinal use of marijuana.

Australian Drug Foundation spokesman Geoff Munro also supported research in this direction.

Federal Parliamentary Secretary for Health Christopher Pyne said the Howard government had given the go-ahead for cannabis trials in NSW and was not opposed to drugs like the cannabis-based Sativex, which is licensed in Canada to alleviate pain in multiple sclerosis patients.

Mr Pyne said if a company wanted to market Sativex in Australia it would have to go through the normal process of attaining approval from the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA).

"The government does not oppose cannabis-based drugs for medicinal purposes (but) we are only talking about tablets or sprays which are administered as prescribed," he said.

Federal opposition spokesman Laurie Ferguson said support from a conservative group like the CWA for research into cannabis use was an indication of how far the public had shifted on this issue.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinemakaveli8x8
Stranger
Male User Gallery
Registered: 02/28/06
Posts: 21,636
Last seen: 7 years, 9 months
Re: CWA joins fight to legalise cannabis [Re: Da_Vine]
    #6057510 - 09/13/06 03:23 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

THIS IS GREAT NEWS!!!! If anyone can minipulate the government and society as a whole about this who legal issue its got to be our women!  Lets just hope they are as ambisious as arien brockovich :smile:


--------------------
We were sent to hell for eternity :hellfire: Ø:omgawesome:h®
We play on earth to pass the time :foreheadslap:

Over-population the root of all Evil-brings the Elites Closer to the gates.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1

Shop: Kraken Kratom Kratom Capsules for Sale   Original Sensible Seeds Autoflowering Cannabis Seeds, Bulk Cannabis Seeds   Bridgetown Botanicals Bridgetown Botanicals, CBD Capsules


Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* Fight for cannabis cafe veggieM 1,621 2 04/24/06 03:09 PM
by RemainRandom50
* Marijuana fest ignites fight for legalization Wronguy 1,041 0 10/09/06 05:09 PM
by Wronguy
* 300,000 Australians use cannabis daily veggieM 1,599 8 05/11/07 12:01 AM
by rintintin
* Australian ports wide open to drug trafficking veggieM 1,412 1 06/04/05 11:56 AM
by SuperD
* Australian army urged to fight poisonous toads motamanM 909 0 06/19/06 01:18 PM
by motaman
* Cannabis in Amsterdam and in San Francisco MikeOLogical 4,903 5 12/04/09 10:58 PM
by sonar
* Moroccan cannabis farmers face ruin veggieM 1,412 3 03/10/06 11:08 AM
by MAIA
* Cannabis: the final word [UK] veggieM 1,224 1 12/05/05 09:14 AM
by Young_but_cool

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: motaman, veggie, Alan Rockefeller, Mostly_Harmless
1,249 topic views. 0 members, 4 guests and 5 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2024 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.021 seconds spending 0.007 seconds on 14 queries.