Last resort

It is so sad to hear of doctors refusing to prescribe cannabis to those who need it, such as the 14-year-old girl who may suffer over 100 fits a day, a 79-year-old man who suffers constantly from a broken back, or a young man who suffers a rare cancer condition and wants to trial medicinal cannabis for his symptoms.

The cost of cannabis medication is prohibitive, even if

one managed to get a prescription.

This young man is so desperate to live that he is crowdfunding to pay for the cannabis medicine. The concept of having to crowdfund for medication should be abhorrent to any decent person, particularly when he should be able to grow it himself for free.

Some just give up and hope to die, whilst others suffer, needlessly.

In a civilised society, citizens and governments care for the vulnerable — children, elderly and the sick. It is called putting families first — ahead of profits for pharmaceutical companies.

Under our current ‘health’ system, government may offer medicines for free, but medicinal cannabis comes at a personal cost. Currently the Health Department’s regime allows us medicinal cannabis for certain or terminal conditions, and this is dependent on our ability to pay $1000-plus per month.

To attempt to justify cannabis prohibition by saying some may use it recreationally to feel good is a farce, as they use it anyway. Stop your hypocrisy or put your glass of wine down, and leave the chocolate in the shop. Get over it.

Cannabis prohibition breaches our human rights, the right to organically grow a plant that may heal or alleviate our symptoms.

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Cohen has a rare condition which has led to even rarer tumour locations, with one form of cancer having only four documented cases in the world. Can you help Cohen with a trial of MC for his symptoms? Go to givealittle.co.nz/cause/ Medical Cannabis for Cohen Brown

BEVERLEY ALDRIDGE KATHLEEN PATTINSON Seniors’ Voice

Otamatea Evans’ cartoon, December 4, relating to the late President Bush, is beyond contempt.

How cowardly to mock an elderly wheelchair-ridden man; one whose lifetime was the personification of courage and achievement, be it, by way of example, as a 21-year-old bomber pilot in World War II or as the Western leader who was instrumental in winning the Cold War.

Evans could better have used his talent to show some respect for the country without which we would likely have been in servitude to the Japanese, and without whose presence China would not, as it is now, have to be content with just a soft power push into the Pacific, or maybe his talent could more suitably be used to comment on the parochial and mundane aspects of New Zealand society.

K McNAUGHTON

Kaitaia that make plant life possible, providing plant food when the plant roots extract the protoplasm out of the microorganisms. A similar process takes place in water.

The humble, invisible micro-organisms make possible our entire food chain, from the tiniest plant to the largest elephant. Without micro-organisms, humans would not exist.

If either the gases or the minerals are in short supply, the micro-organisms

have nothing to eat and the life system must die off.

Thousands of micro-organisms will fit on a pinhead. Healthy soil will have 28 tonnes of micro-organisms per acre. Today the soil is dead, kept on life support by artificial fertilisers.

Around every 100,000 years we have an ice age, in between an inter-glacial period of 10,800 years where life abounds on Earth. The grinding of rock for 90,000 years by melting ice layers the minerals and returns topsoil as we know it.

There are about 92 known minerals and trace elements in ground rock. These elements are essential to all life.

With increasing over-population of seven billion people, this natural cycle is coming to a rapid end. ‘World legislative bill No 6,’ adopted by the second session of the provincial world parliament meeting in New Delhi, India, March 1985. (Emergency Earth Rescue Administration) contains seven pages on how to save the Earth.

Massive remineralisation of forest lands and crop lands; determine mineral mixes in powdered rock form, eg lava flow, glacial deposits and limestone; for remineralisation on a mass scale, equip thousands of airplanes to carry out dusting; encourage both public and private, local, regional, national and international reforestation (Shane Jones) and remineralisation. (Prevents impending starvation of several billion inhabitants of Earth, saves oceans from dying, saves the Earth’s oxygen supply, prevents rapid onset of new ice age which will destroy civilisation).

These are just five of 35 recommendations.

Swap the kauri for an oak tree. One mature oak tree needs 15lbs of calcium per year. An oak tree standing for 10,000 years (a new one replaces a dead one) uses 65 tonnes of calcium.

Hundreds of years ago an oak in Europe would be 100ft to the first branch. Now an oak tree is lucky to reach 100ft overall.

This is the law of diminishing return. We have acid rain, acid soil, acid oceans and acid people. Ninety per cent of all tested cancer patients in the US are in an acid state. Farming mag states that soils tested on mycoplasma farms are all acid.

The Earth is supposed to function in an alkaline environment which, rock dust will do. How do you get 60 feet of peat on the Chatham Islands? Maybe next week Anahera can tell us in Maori the name of the waka that took it out. Did it come from Bunnings or Yates?

John Hamaker, author of The Survival of Civilisation, correctly wrote that nature hasn’t gone mad, people have, and the globalists prefer the smell of money to the threat of death. LEO HELLEUR

RD 3 Kerikeri I write as a retired builder with many connections in the construction industry, particularly in the Far North.

There would hardly be a builder in the Far North that has not had a problem with the staff at the FNDC. Their (FNDC) incompetence, lack of efficiency and urgency in processing all matters with building consents is choking the ability of all in the construction industry to produce building projects in a timely and efficient manner. Long lead times for issue of consents, inspections, lack of knowledge and decisions by some inspectors are unhelpful, particularly when plans are made for concreting, materials, sub-trade scheduling etc. All contribute to projects running late and costing more.

There is one substantial businessman, large employer, in the area, who swears that he will never invest further in the Far North. Had he known the problems that he has encountered he would have carried out his present project in Whangarei, rather than the Far North.

This does nothing for the future growth of the Far North area, and can only be blamed on the difficulties in dealing with the Far North District Council. If the council had a management leader and team, with the courage and strength to get the council employees to perform as efficiently as they should, then we may see more people willing to invest in the future of the Far North.

Sadly, the mayor and councillors have no ability or control of the CEO, or his staff, and the same old stalemate continues.

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