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THE IRISH MEDICAL Board has approved a cannabis-based spray, which can ease symptoms and significantly improve the quality of life of people suffering from illnesses like multiple sclerosis.
However the Medical Independent reports that the spray cannot be made available in the country until the government changes the current legislation around the Misuse of Drugs Act.
The legislation prohibits the production and possession of cannabis-based medicines in the same way as cannabis itself. The Department of Health has indicated that it will put forward proposals to change the law by the middle of 2013 but has said that it will be complex as it is wary of watering down drugs legislation.
It is estimated that between 10 and 30 per cent of MS patients in Europe smoke cannabis to ease the pain and other disabling symptoms of the disease and the Medical Independent reports that many sufferers in Ireland, waiting for the Sativex spray to become available, feel they have no option but to source it illegally.
Though it is not understood exactly how the chemicals in the medicine work, MS Ireland has said that many of the 8,000 people in Ireland who suffer from the disease could benefit from it.
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Standard procedure for events like this. Not too long ago all of South Armagh was a no fly zone under 2500ft.
I will be there and the leaders of the world will know there in the presence of greatness for I am the one and only.
Yes Vincent I’m sure you will be there along with all your aliases !
@VD. Truest comment you’ve made since you invented yourself. However, One, but not only…..unfortunately!
Here VD…open a tin of Red Bull and fly over the place….ignore the anti aircraft fire. Nothing but special effects..
All this G8 security prep brings to mind the part in Animal Farm where some animals are more equal than others
Reminds me of the part in real life when some people have a more than equal chance of being killed
Who’ll miss them?
Does this mean that the Polish won’t be able to fly back to collect their dole money?
They are shutting down a huge expanse of Lower Lough Erne as well. Down in Killadeas next to Lough Erne Yacht Club. They’ve built a great big fence and they’ve put up barriers where all the cops they’ve drafted in will be staying in wee concrete huts they’ve built. I feel bad for the poor bastards staying in Chez PSNI because it looks pretty grim. Any protests that might happen will be a bit pointless anyway because you won’t be able to get with in 3 miles of the Lough Golf resort on the Shore road.
On the plus side all the delegates & press people have to stay somewhere – so there are a lot of hotels in the NW and Ulster benefitting from this. :)
Just like Paris when the Gestapo dropped by.
Ah but the Gestapo wore some great jackets and hats
Breadcrumbs from the table. Oh thank you my G8 lords …
There is no plus side to a meeting of the worlds top gangsters . They were once called the Mafia – now they rob us legally .
Does this mean us Cavan boys can’t fly our flags after we beat Fermanagh in Enniskillen on sunday!!!
If ever there was an argument for holding these meetings in some secure military base away from ‘normal’ life then these ott security arrangements sure give us one. Watch the Irish Government permitting the switch off of mobile phone systems next week.
Or they could just give Cisco a call and save all this nonsense.
Will keep the plane in the hanger for the duration
The hanger in your wardrobe?
In the hanger not ON the hanger. How can you put something in a clothes hanger you idiotic peasant.
As if anybody is gonna try and fly over and attack them, what were they gonna do? Fire stones down at them from a plane.
Iv heard that at one point people have used planes as missiles and crashed them into targets. But no your right thats too far fetched, it’d never work
If somebody wants to use a plane as a missile then declaring a no fly zone over parts of Fermanagh isnt going to stop them
It means they can be shot down David.
Aye because theres always been plenty of AA positions around Fermanagh hasnt there lol
They’ll put them there for the duration, David. Could you not work that much out?
I hear you loud and clear General Patton.
Well that’s my weekend ruined then. Thanks a bunch G8 mofos!
All these leaders are there to discuss how to control the population, how to make themselves even richer, and how to enslave us even further.
This my friends is a fact.
Who is paying for all this…? – taxpayers.
How long are we going to put up with these criminals?
And if the no fly zone is ignored, what will the PSNI dispatch? A strongly worded warning?
Collect all the dirty nappies that were left on the beaches at the weekend, tie to remote control model plane and aim for the G8 but wpould it work ?
Raf jets and surface to air missiles more than likely
If they have an air corridor, why do they need a bus corridor too? The number 30 bus from Donegal to Dublin usually takes about an hour to get from Donegal town to Enniskillen via Ballyshannon and Belleek. But for the past couple of weeks it has been diverted to Garrison and via Kiltyclogher to Belcoo! So add an extra 30 minutes to one hour, depending on whether you are behind a tractor. Having this ban on public transport such as buses (and tractors) a fortnight before the visit is completely mad, Ted.
Prism should clear up any slack left over!!..
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