Comments on: NZ’s medicinal cannabis scheme just got way better

By: Gordon McShean

Gordon McShean — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 11:15:11 +0000

It has taken me many years to be able to appreciation the value of cannabis! In 1950 (at only 15) I suffered heart problems; Glasgow cardiologists advised me that I was unlikely to survive more than another 15 years unless some new heart surgery was developed. I moved to the US, and there specialists confirmed my desperate condition: it was 1966, and I was 29! Learning about new surgical being developed in New Zealand I telephoned specialists there – and was there within a few weeks, having my life saved! (I would later write about this – published as OPERATION NEW ZEALAND in the commonwealth and as BUM TICKER in the US). I hadn’t known much about cannabis in any of the previous countries I’d lived in – and so was somewhat surprising when young Kiwi medics briefly helped me by offering some “medic grass.” I’ve lived in NZ since 1980, and have had a few medical problems that might me. But official NZ has failed to allow that! Perhaps the current proposal may help old wrecks like me to live more comfortably – let’s hope…!

By: Michael Wolfe

Michael Wolfe — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 20:30:56 +0000

Good news indeed, I hope Pharmac will be there to subsidize the costs for the Medical side of the coin, as from the sound of this article it’s a matter of pleasing the Markets apetite for profits first over affordable availability. So this chronic pain – & cancer survivor is waiting with hope.!

By: MedChoc

MedChoc — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 20:41:16 +0000

‘Dried cannabis can’t be supplied for smoking, but patients could use the flowers to make their own homemade remedies, if they want to.’

Chris -dont this mean buds will become available, and users COULD smoke them if them really wanted? albeit outside the law?