Baroness Browning On Cannabis Part 2

June 27th, 2011 by Peter Reynolds

Baroness Browning, it really is time to draw this absurd pretence to a close.  I would not use the words “cruel” and “evil” without proper consideration but they are an entirely accurate description of the Home Office policy on medicinal cannabis.  In all conscience, you cannot allow this shameful and scandalous denial of medicine to continue.

I am asking you again to meet with me and delegation of medicinal cannabis users who will explain to you first hand the enormous relief that cannabis provides and how it allows them to lead full and productive lives.  Please will your grasp this nettle and show some mercy and compassion for these people?  Please will you arrange a meeting?

Yours sincerely,

Peter Reynolds

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  • Tygertyger77

    After all,a governments job is to do what the people tell it. It doesn’t work the other way round,that’s called a dictatorship.

    Please, do your job,and your duty to the people you “serve”

  • http://twitter.com/UKCIA UKCIA

    Nice try but this
    perfectly logical and reasonable communication will have absolutely no effect,
    Peter. Those of us who have been in this law reform campaign for a long time
    learned ages ago that cannabis prohibition isn’t based on any kind of evidence
    or reason – much less on compassion. Because of that there simply isn’t any
    point in wasting time typing out such messages to the drugs minister; she knows
    the real world situation and is determined to ignore it and she doesn’t care
    who suffers as a result. Such is the mind-set of the sort of people who make it
    to high political office. This isn’t a party thing either, Labour and as we now
    know the LibDems are just as arrogant and impervious to reason as the Tories on
    this issue.

    Cannabis is illegal simply because politicians and their paymasters have decided it should be and
    for no other reason. It is an authority decision which is not to be questioned
    and which will not be questioned.

    It’s good that you are writing such well constructed e-mails, but I don’t
    bother any more because I know they go straight in the recycle bin. We need to
    think of some way to get this message through, but polite letters to government
    ministers are less than useless.

    Depressing, but true I’m afraid. Unless you enjoy bashing your head on a wall, I suggest you think of some other way to get this message out there. I’m all ears…

    Derek

  • Stevester

    She is just a puppet and ill bet she could not do anything even if she wanted too . You should have just asked her to do us all a favour and sent her a bit of rope instead of taking the time to write a letter Pete .

  • Anonymous

    Maybe CCing all the major newspapers on the letters would create a greater effect, because then there is stronger public pressure to put some thought into the reply.

  • Fanampton

    keep pegging away; you’ll  win in the end.

    having smoked cannabis recreationally for over 40 years, i have no intention of  quitting my drug of choice.  infinitely preferable to being legless and prey to a vicious hangover, cannabis ingestion renders its users peaceable and genial.

  • http://twitter.com/dragon83uk Daniel

    This is actually something I was thinking about yesterday after reading an article on the Guardian site, regarding the Green MP in Brighton. Surely all the editors need to do to see the flavour of public opinion is scroll down through their various comments sections. It’s a beautiful display of idiots failing in the face of overwhelmingly basic logic. We need to start petitioning these people to be our voices (again). I’m no expert on current media moguls or their political opinions but I reckon there’s one or two that could see the investment opportunity in speaking up for the people. All I know is, not the Daily Mail. I’m not quite sure where those guys
    get their science but I have a sneaking suspicion it involves a
    one-armed crazy man with big red crayon? For a half way point we could ask that some of the other major publications simply run evidence based assessments of some sort? I’m thinking 2-page spread where each side of the debate gets to play their best hands.

  • SanjC

    I’m going through a similar headbanging exercise at the moment. Unfortunately we often need to prove we have exhausted all legitimate means for bringing about change before using more radical means, by doing this you keep public opinion on your side and they accept you had no other option. I fear the time for more radical measures will soon be upon us but will our battle cry be heard over the battle cries of all the others calling for change? I’m ready to do whatever it takes because without medication my life won’t be one worth loving!

  • Christopher

    I doubt she will even read the letter, such is their arrogance, you didn’t even get a reply last time, if you get a reply this time, it will be the same cut & paste mumbo jumbo they sent Des.

  • Neil_2k2

    Brighton City Council Debates Proposed Medical Marijuana Ordinance

    Why have CLEAR been so quiet on this Peter?? pretty big news and a credit to the Green Party

  • Christopher

    This is so true Derek. I’ve been writing to these people for years and no longer bother. It really is like talking to a brick wall.

    I do think individually writing to your constituency MP is a good thing to do, as some of them are more open to the idea and it keeps the pressure on them if they receive lots of letters about this subject.

  • http://www.peter-reynolds.co.uk Peter Reynolds

    I haven’t seen or heard about this before Neil, only about the general proposal to move towards decriminalisation of all drugs under the “Localism” bill.  The issue has been about Brighton being the “drug death capital” of Britain and more focused on heroin.  If you have a link or some other material please let me see it.

    Of course, I’d be ready to get right behind Caroline Lucas and/or Brighton City Council on this but you should know that she withdrew at the last minute from participating in the recent BBC South East Today programme on cannabis.

  • http://www.peter-reynolds.co.uk Peter Reynolds

    Neil, in fact the story is about Brighton, Michigan, USA!

  • http://twitter.com/dragon83uk Daniel
  • http://www.peter-reynolds.co.uk Peter Reynolds

    The story “Brighton City Council Debates Proposed Medical Marijuana Ordinance” (the clue is in the last three words) is here:

    http://brighton.patch.com/articles/brighton-city-council-debates-proposed-medical-marijuana-ordinance

  • http://twitter.com/dragon83uk Daniel

    You need to actually look at the link I provided, the Brighton in the Guardian article is definitely the one this side of the pond! From that article:

    “Brighton is the drug death capital of the UK, with the highest mortality rate from drugs per capita.”

    I think what we have here is a case of two Brighton’s doing much the same thing in a reasonably short time period. It’s just a huge coinkydink methinks! :)

  • http://www.peter-reynolds.co.uk Peter Reynolds

    What’s your point Daniel?

    I’ve already commented on the Brighton Sussex developments above.  You’re just repeating what I’ve already written. The only real similarity between the two stories is the name.  One is about minimising the harms of drug use, the other is about maximising the benefits of medicinal cannabis.

  • http://twitter.com/dragon83uk Daniel

    Sorry, my bad, I’d lost the flow of the conversation. I thought you were saying that the US Brighton was the only story that had came up. Just scrolled back through and I can see where I made my mistake. I saw the bit you’d wrote about our Brighton and assumed the following comment was about that. Again, my apologies.

  • Anonymous

    I remember another government in the past that neglected the ill and infirm…maybe they’ll be building us camps next…

  • http://www.facebook.com/Sovoriltsiki Ådne Aschehoug Aadnesen

    it appears that if we have some disturbance with our brains,its better to zombify us slowly into death,than give us a quality life with natural medicine.
    Survival of the fittest i believe this is called.no mercy for the sick.
    the world has gone bad,its time to think and act outside the law box