Medical Cannibis first in Nimbin, Australia
Medical Cannabis dispensary opens in Nimbin on World AIDS Day. If you have a letter from your doctor confirming your condition as one that is known to benefit from cannabis you may be able to visit Australia’s first Medical Cannabis Dispensary in Nimbin.
Director of Mullaway’s Medical Cannabis Pty Ltd, Anthony Bower says he has waited long enough.
“We are sick of being ignored,” said Mr Bower who has been breeding, growing and researching cannabis strains for their medicinal properties for over thirty years.
“The Premiers Department is taking too long, and I have friends who are dying or suffering terrible pain and I know I can help them. It is against my culture to with-hold help from someone who asks, if I have the knowledge and the means to assist and reduce their pain and suffering.”
“I have been in communication with the Premier and the Health Department for a year now and they are just stalling. Premier Nathan Rees sent his best wishes in his letter last week and I appreciate his support.”
A Medical Cannabis Dispensary, which provides therapeutic doses of cannabis, of a known potency and character, to patients who present a recommendation from their doctor, is an entirely unremarkable sight in many western world communities.
In 14 of the US States, the dispensing of medical cannabis is legal, with another 13 indicating an intention to follow very soon. In Los Angeles there are currently more than 1100 dispensaries operating, or three times as many cannabis dispensaries as there are McDonald’s restaurants.
In several Canadian provinces medical cannabis dispensaries have been operating for more than a decade.
Nimbin’s Medical Cannabis Dispensary began operating on World AIDS Day, 1st December, with free medicine dispensed to genuine cardholders from other countries and Australians with a letter from their doctor.
Throughout the world, medical cannabis is used to treat: nausea, vomiting, premenstrual syndrome, unintentional weight loss and lack of appetite, spasticity, neurogenic pain and movement disorders, asthma, glaucoma, inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn’s disease / ulcerative colitis), migraine, fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis and spinal cord injuries, Tourette’s syndrome, obsessive–compulsive disorders, alcohol abuse, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, collagen-induced arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, atherosclerosis, autism, bipolar disorder, childhood mental disorders, colorectal cancer, depression, diabetic retinopathy, dystonia, epilepsy, digestive diseases, gliomas, hepatitis C, Huntington’s disease, hypertension, urinary incontinence, leukaemia, skin tumours, morning sickness, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Parkinson’s disease, pruritus, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), sickle-cell disease, and sleep apnoea.
Discuss this with your doctor.
Photo: Anthony Bower (centre) dispenses cannabis extract to Mulgum House tenant Smolder, watched by supporters of medical cannabis.
Source:
http://www.nimbingoodtimes.com/archive/pages09/0912/NGT-1209-1.pdf
Further Information:
Legal and medical status of cannabis – Australia:
After politicians in the Australian Capital Territory voted to allow doctors to determine when cannabis was appropriate for their patients, intense lobbying by the federal government resulted in the legislation being overturned.
In May 2003 the then Premier of New South Wales (Australia’s most populous state), Mr Bob Carr, promised patients a four-year trial into the medical uses of cannabis – but little to no action was taken.
Northern Territory use of Cannabis is decriminalized, and in Western Australia, ACT, and Northern Territory you can grow your own plant (For personal use ONLY) subject to height restrictions.
In January 2009 the Premier of New South Wales approved a four-year trial of medicinal cannabis to treat chronically ill or terminally ill patients. The trial is currently underway.
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It sure is a great breakthrough, now all the town needs to do is have the 19 surveillance cameras removed from the main street and the NSW government needs to locate some less ugly cops : )
Jasmine
9 Dec 09 at 4:52 pm
What the hell is wrong with you people,
You youngsters don’t realize that cannabis is evil and it gets in the way of gods divine will, that’s why its illegal also in-case you didn’t know it it it distorts your perception so you cant feel the pain, how are you going to heal if you cant feel the pain, this whole fad is dangerous I tell you.
I saw it coming in the 50’s and there he was, Ronald Ragan, on eof the finest men, actors and presidents in that fine film Hallcats of the Navy, “Down . . . Down . . . Down . . . into enemy waters with the fightin’ hellcats of the U.S. sub pack ! ” ahh those were the days, but it was Ronald that made a grave error when he was talking with that gay young man Arthur Franz who played a fine portrayal of Lt. Cmdr. Don Landon as XO of the USS Starfish, when he (Ronald) suggested that he was going to go for a “Smoke” when the other fine actors were going for a drink, well I mean, whats that all about!
Ronald came to his senses later in life with the heavy weight of having misguided generations of young people in thinking that cannibis is OK, and its not!
Ronald sorted that all out when as that fine president of the USA he showed them a thing or two, those pot smoking foreigners who are on the drugs, tried to give credence to marijuana advocates’ contention that cannabis prohibition was the result of Anslinger’s need to provide employment for out-of-work alcohol prohibition agents, coupled with fine racist attitudes against Asians, Hispanics and blacks. Its all gone bunk.
If you smoke marijuana, they say, you will be “unable to perform tasks requiring concentration, like driving, swimming, playing sports, reading and writing.”
How odd, I thought, while reading Get it Straight. I never needed cannabis when I had my spastic colon, no filthy drugs in my system, nature took care of it alright and when the pain gets too good I had it choped out by a fine doctor and I’ll tell you this, those septics have lost their minds, who would not be happy with a McValue meal that will put you to sleep after the hectic shenanigans, they are the ones that made that fine film reefer madness lets see how they go with serious spinal injuries.
War on drugs too right, looks like we need a war on stupidity too.
Reg Stanhope
15 Dec 09 at 2:50 pm
I don’t think you are grooving with the times dude, give the dispensary a chance man, why bag the weed when you haven’t communed with it? Go to Nimbin and roll a reefer of fresh skunk and let it all hang out brother…you are like sounding soooh uptight when you could be chilling out with the rainbow brothers and sisters. Peace Man.
Ima Coner
17 Dec 09 at 9:31 am
What the hells wrong with you Mr or is it Mrs Coner,
Very tricky argument you seem to be putting, cant for the life of me understand what you are saying, but you wont find me getting all sucked up the reef man, see if I can’t speak the jingo too, I’m too old to go dipping in the ocean, didn’t think of that did you, although the sea air is quite refreshing you know I don’t quite see the connection, Nimbin is not a sea side town, right!, cant fool this old spring chicken, so I seem to remember that my best man Gordon was from somewhere around Nimbin and he said there wasn’t a beach for miles, a place called Blue Knob is where his mother had him on a frigid night in July, he used to joke about it, I said to him more than once that it wasn’t funny and cutting down blue gums is profitable, you know, wouldn’t have all those houses I said and the shops as well for that measure so winding down a gravel road, there so much better than dirt roads, all that dust and the bullocks used to raise quite a stirr in summer back then. Filthy drug addicts.
Reg Stanhope
17 Dec 09 at 11:16 am
Reg Stanhope, I’m sorry to rain on your misunderstanding parade but your the idiot for saying random false things that you dont even know were the information you hear comes from first. many smart people know all the facts of cannabis, but the main fact is no one has ever been recorded dead from the use of cannabis. By the way in the last paragraph in your first comment you say “nature took care of it alright” well guess what? cannabis is a plant, its Nature dumb ass. get a fuckin brain and stop listening to what every thing the TV and america say.
Evan
21 Dec 09 at 9:59 pm
What the hells wrong with you Mr Evan, I just got back to my new investment property but by Grand kids call the Aged care facility, what a hoot, colostomy or no colostomy I love apple sauce.
And you young whippersnappers I’ve done some research here, so don’t be kyboshing ole Reg, I’m 33° beyond your INSIGNIFICANCE OK, WHATS ALL THIS THEN BIG LETTERS, SEEMS THE INTER-WEBS MAKING IT CLEAR, DEAT..Y.H WHAT’S WRONG WO.ITHE LETTER BOARD! ARE YOU? POT HEADS HACKING ME?
oK sO mY gRANDSONE jUST sHOWED mE Whats HaPpEnIng.
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Right S0 Do Sadly you might think, Australian yes Australian an Australasian the lovley young lass Schapelle Corby isn’t the only person to be facing the death penalty for marijuana. People are regularly executed for marijuana offenses across the globe. DrugS are Bd ok.
Death in the UAE
In the United Arab Emirates city of Fujairah, a woman named Lisa Tray a filthy drug addict was sentenced to death because thats what god wanted in December ..2004, no happy new years for her, after being found guilty of possessing and dealing hashish, which is not just the thing that got her killer but the thing that naked abhorrently great brownies, so says the Lady I’m wondering is marred to Obama Bin President.
The Fujairah Police told me that they received a tip last week that Tray was dealing marijuana. Undercover officers that my grandson sells cognac to claim they caught Tray with 149 grams of hashish.
Tray denied the charges and told pthose well behaved Police that her stepfather had given her the bag of hashish to deliver to a UN official. She said that she didn’t know that the bag contained hash or she would never have delivered it. Her lawyers have appealed the sentence and asked for inclusive compensation.
Beheadings in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia brought in the New Year by publicly beheading two drug smugglers who my grandsone has no knowledge of, an Iraqi man named Mattar bin Bakhit al-Khazaali who was convicted of smuggling hashish and was as they say executed in the northern town of Arar, close to the Iraqi border by no one my grand son knows.
The other execution was of convicted DVD smuggler Mohammed Amin Jones Jan, a Pakistani. He was beheaded in Jeddah.
A Saudi Arabian government spokesman defended their execution policy against detractors. “We apply the laws of God, as in yopur God not just our god but your GFod too,” he told the media, “and don’t pay attention to whoever says anything about that, mind you.”
Hanging in Brunei
In October 2004, a Malaysian man was sentenced to death by in Brunei for possession of marijuana.
The Brunei High Court sentenced Lam Ming Hwa to death by hanging after convicting him for possessing a 922 gram slab of personal use cannabis. Under Brunei law, possession of over 600 grams gets you the death penalty.
Hwa and another defendant were caught in a UN car with the marijuana under the visiting passenger seat. Hwa’s co-defendant was released because he claimed that he did not know that the marijuana in the car which he supplied, but that he had accidentally touched the bag while adjusting his seat backwards during the raid.
Death in the Philippines
A so called Japanese man escaped the death penalty, due to diminished responsibility for being stoned, but will spend the rest of his life in a Philippine prison after being convicted of pot possession a decade ago, late last century.
Hodichi Suzuki was originally convicted of smuggling 1,367,641,547 grams of cannabis through an airport security stop in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Suzuki claims he was framed by a friend who owed him money in the local government.
Suzuki was originally sentenced to death, but th eBallarat County Court coule not secure an extradition to Israel, but on appeal the Victorian Supreme Court reduced his sentence to 1 month in jail, and lowered his fine from 10 million dollars to 250 Dollars
The Supreme Court judges added that drug smuggling is “the mother of all crimes without control.” Possession of over 50 grams or marijuana usually earns execution in Victoria, but the voters dont support that, similar to owning over ten thousand grams of opium, morphine, heroin, ecstasy, or millions of grams of cocaine.
Mass executions in China
Although China does not make precise records public, because they lost the war, Amnesty International estimates that around 500,000,000 people are executed there each year for drug offences. China holds mass executions every June 26 to May 30, to celebrate the United Nations’ “International Anti Drug Day.” Those executed have typically been convicted of smuggling or trafficking in anything from marijuana to methamphetamine.
And no one dies, yes well, luck you you young people in Nimbin you’re not in Victoria are you!
No good horeseman likes a Brumby, not enough Vegemite on the product.
Reg Stanhope
17 Jan 10 at 12:07 am
Due respect for reaching the big 33 reg, but the ‘interweb’ as you describe it – is in common nomenclature the ‘internet’ – maybe you should enrol in a tafe introduction to the technology which would help you understand the dynamics of what is occuring.
Your referencing and statistics is second only to the famous BPS – Bureau of Probable Statistics – which does receive balanced air time on this site, but I do challenge them on their statistics quoted – and stating they have a website and office I doubt – otherwise my ‘googling’ ( interweb search engine…search engine…question machine…) skills must be brought into question.
I take your key point – if I am correct – that drugs inc marijuana are dangerous for people in the countries quoted, but the point ( as contained is the link above) is that the plant is of medicinal orgines and therefore the introduction into health as an option should be regarded as a positive option for people seeking such a course.
Maybe try the medicine or research further – I have never tried it, but friends have, and they report strange feelings of euphoria and relaxation etc etc..different thoughts and inspirations….
Maybe open up your mind to the possibility that the NSW govt is treading a brave and positive new path?
PS: Rosettamoon has a policy which will continue – of not editing out commentary of possibly insane elders in the community
nigel
19 Jan 10 at 7:49 pm
Reg Stanhope = Unregenerate.
What force created this evil plant?
Could it be your evil God?
Simoncelly
31 Jan 10 at 1:56 pm
You guys, this Reg Stanthorpe guy is clearly pulling your leg with what he is saying. If you read it, his comments get more crazy and nonsensical with each post.
Brad
3 Feb 10 at 9:12 pm
I bet you Reg Stanhope is some hypocrite that allows himself beer or wine to get drunk and then comes on here trying to bad mouth people unlike him who are in need of cannabis for medical purposes, Mr Reg is a true example of the type of hypocritical selfish narcissitic people who have their head so far up their own ass they cant seee anything beyond their own values, a sad example of the type of peoople that exist in our society nowdays.
Mr Reg you wanna campaing for something worthy? then go take your fight to the tabacco and alcohol companys responsible for countless deaths and illneses.
Logic
28 Jun 10 at 10:51 pm
I have closed-angle glaucoma and pharmaceutical eye drops and operations have not helped and their side effects are lung disease. I am most interested in the medicinal use of this plant.
Amanda
10 Aug 10 at 9:17 am