MEDICINAL CANNABIS

DAVE Fredericks’ opinion (TC, 19/2) about the mayor’s opinion of Wellcamp farm, and that medicinal cannabis is a highly dangerous drug doesn’t stack up against Wikipedia quite authoritative nfo.

Cannabis doesn’t increase blood pressure but may exacerbate existing arterial wall inflammation called arteritis. It only poses a threat to those with existing cardio vascular disease especially smokers and “a formal association with cannabis could not be made” and is “neither necessary or sufficient to cause psychosis” but may affect those already with it.

About 12 years ago at the launch of a new osteoporosis drug “Actonel”. I was shocked to hear it was yet another bisphosphonate chemical like Fossamax that only inhibits osteoclasts action removing old fragile bone, not stimulating essential osteoblast action to replace bone mineral as natural progesterone would. Actonel must be taken remaining vertical for 30 minutes, causes oesophageal irritation, sometimes severe reactions requiring hospitalisation, upper gastrointestinal adverse reactions, osteonecrosis or bone death of the jaw, and many many other horrible side effects.

Cannabis and natural progesterone cream are natural so probably can’t be patented and have been very cautiously approved by many countries. The cannabis objections suggested are misleading if Wikipedia is to be believed and medicinal cannabis is a godsend to parents and their children and the very few side effects as above can be guardedly avoided.

Medicinal cannabis dangerous? Let’s get real folks. The comparative shocking side-effects of the likes of just Actonel alone is just one comparison of the thousands of approved actually-dangerous drugs out there.

F. EARLEY, Toowoomba