Smoke pain relievant and anti-muscle spasticity erryday

[Mrenda]

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/ca ... 52033.html (http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/carrying-cannabis-medicine-to-be-legal-152033.html)


Carrying cannabis medicine to be legal

By Jennifer Hough

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

DEPARTMENT of Health officials have been instructed by the Department of Justice to enact an EU agreement which allows people to carry legally prescribed narcotic or psychotropic drugs for medical use.


The move comes after Galway man Noel McCullagh, who uses a cannabis- based drug for multiple sclerosis, sought a guarantee that he wouldn’t be arrested for bringing it into the country.

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This could mean medicinal weed could be de facto legal in all EU countries, once it's been legalised in one EU country. It would mean that although it may not be legal or possible to have it prescribed in one country, you could travel to somewhere it was, pick up a prescription legally, get yo' weed and bring it back to your home country. Because the EU guarantees the freedom to travel with medicines it would mean once you're legally allowed have it in the place prescribed, you could have it anywhere else.

brb being diagnosed with back-pain.

[evil edna]

this is the start of a slippery slope, what next, prescription heroin?

[Shaikar]

How would you get a prescription for it in the legal country if you're fully resident in an illegal one though? Do irish GPs register patients from anywhere?

[Mavolio]

Only if you were a citizen of that country i would have thought. but then how hard would it be to get dual citizenship?

[teds]

have two passports, will travel :guinness:

[Leviathan]

this is the start of a slippery slope, what next, prescription heroin?

Slices of reality

[Mrenda]

How would you get a prescription for it in the legal country if you're fully resident in an illegal one though? Do irish GPs register patients from anywhere?


I don't think Irish GPs are planning on prescribing it. I'd presume you'd have to go to a Dutch doctor.

And getting to see a doctor in a country not your own is fairly commonplace. Plenty of people with non-trivial disorders travel to other countries to get specialist opinions and treatment. So it would just be a case of a weed-doctor setting up in some airport Ryanair fly to, and a dispensary in the airport too. Everyone flies there in the morning, in to see the doctor, get prescribed, pick up weed, fly home in the afternoon.

[Louis]

lol anyone can get weed, who the fuck needs it prescribed?

[Mrenda]

lol anyone can get weed, who the fuck needs it prescribed?

non-hippies

[Laundry]

lol anyone can get weed, who the fuck needs it prescribed?

dont want glass in it

[TimMc]

I look forward to right wing medias reponse to this news, if nothing else.

[fffuuu]

this is the start of a slippery slope, what next, prescription heroin?

you mean diacetylmorphine? already exists.

/not sure if srs.

[Joshua Foiritain]

You'll find weed becomes much less interesting when its actually legal.

[Louis]

You'll find weed becomes much less interesting when its actually legal.


weed has never been interesting

nor have the people who smoke it frequently.

[Amantus]

this is the start of a slippery slope, what next, prescription heroin?

you mean diacetylmorphine? already exists.

/not sure if srs.

I imagine that was The Joke.

[Devec]

Everybody knows that banning things gets the best results for everyone, who needs quality control on drugs anyway when nobody can get to it?

[Amantus]

i smoke weed cause it gives me knowledge

[The Crushah]

this is the start of a slippery slope, what next, prescription heroin?

you mean diacetylmorphine? already exists.

/not sure if srs.

So is D-Methamphetamine (Desoxyn) for ADHD, and cocaine (as a local anesthetic)

[Lallante]

Only if you were a citizen of that country i would have thought. but then how hard would it be to get dual citizenship?


Thats not how the EU works. You cant discriminate on most things on nationality. Pretty sure if you registered for a doctor in [medical weed country] he would have to treat you like any local citizen

[Mrenda]

Only if you were a citizen of that country i would have thought. but then how hard would it be to get dual citizenship?


Thats not how the EU works. You cant discriminate on most things on nationality. Pretty sure if you registered for a doctor in [medical weed country] he would have to treat you like any local citizen


Aye, pretty much my undestanding. You probably won't qualify for free general healthcare in other EU countries unless you satisfy certain tax profiles or residency conditions. Although emergency care and anything ensuing from that would be on the basis of EU citizenry (There's a particular official EU document you're meant to carry with you if you're travelling around the EU that will show any doctor that you're entitled to treatment.) So the person may have to pay to see the doctor in the other country, but they can't be refused treatment.


Fake Edit: The form was formerly the E111, now the European Health Insurance Card. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_H ... rance_Card (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Health_Insurance_Card)

[Lowa [NSN]]

Was talk about it on swedish radio yesterday, they talked to some guy who had severe ADHD together with some serious physical illnesses as well hampering movement.
He had literally tried every available pharmaceutical drug there is for his conditions, there are none left to try.
Weed was the only thing that made him normal (he said it was quite boring as all his mates seemed to have tons of fun).

Aaanyway, they also mentioned that some kid had ordered weed oil (from Germany), got it seized in customs but then returned to him based on that if it was purchased legally as medicinal and if it was legal in one EU country it transfered.

Seemed it was a bit of a gray area though.

[Quarantine]

Don't get your hope up to high. They are already prescribing meds like this in Austria and they are only pills based on cannabis, not actual weed. It's extremely hard to get high on this as it's just a relatively weak pain medication given in addition to the heavier stuff, but doctors prescribing it are rather happy since it has no side effects and also tends to increase appetite (duh). Since it seems to have a rather good effect on people with chronic pains this deserves some thumbs up regardless of any legalization debate.

[TimMc]

Fake Edit: The form was formerly the E111, now the European Health Insurance Card. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_H ... rance_Card (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Health_Insurance_Card)

Yep I got one of those in my wallet.