A Cure for Cancer?

AMHERST — A Maccan-area man who says marijuana cures cancer admitted Thursday he grew marijuana on his property, turned it into an oil and distributed the oil free of charge to people fighting a variety of diseases.

However, Ricky Logan Simpson, 57, told the jury hearing his Nova Scotia Supreme Court trial on three drug charges that he should not be considered a criminal because the laws forbidding the possession, growing and distribution of marijuana are unconstitutional.

Simpson goes on to makes some extraordinary but truthful claims about the pharmaceutical industry. There is no reason to believe that they are doing everything that they can to fight cancer. We still have next-to-no access to legal medical marijuana but plenty of people that are self-medicating. It is funny to me that it's quite acceptable to self-medicate with drugs like ibuprofen and Sudafed. It is very possible to damage your liver by overdosing on ibuprofen but it's legal and we even give it to our kids to treat their fevers when they are sick. If we can do that then why can't we self-medicate with a harmless weed? Because the pharmaceutical industry would lose money and they own our politicians. There is plenty of anecdotal evidence available to prove that medical marijuana can be very helpful. I have read about many cancer and AIDS patients that were helped by the use of marijuana. I have a friend that uses it to treat her epilepsy but is unable to find a doctor to sign her papers to get her license to possess approved. Only 32 people in Saskatchewan have access to legal med pot, despite the fact that I easily know over 32 people that use pot for medical purposes.

All I can say is that I wish Ricky Simpson good luck in his fight against the over-zealous prohibition warriors that charged him possessing less than 30 grams of marijuana, possessing less than three kilograms of cannabis resin for the purpose of trafficking and unlawfully producing marijuana. He is challenging the constitutionality of our drug laws.