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It's time to strike up a conversation about cannabis and MS, says Irish healthcare firm

Submitted by Marijuana News on Fri, 04/03/2015 - 15:25

Dr James Linden spoke to Sean Moncrieff about how patients and researchers are caught in a legal grey area

It was an Irish doctor, one William Brooke O'Shaughnessy, who first pioneered using cannabis for medical relief. In 1839, the Limerick-born physician published one of the world’s first research paper on the drug’s medicinal qualities, having used Indian hemp – then known as gunjah – to treat tetanus and other diseases.

Now, 176 years later, and another Irish doctor is hoping to explore the medical qualities of marijuana, and saying it’s high time that the Irish authorities changed the law to offer relief to thousands of people suffering from Multiple Sclerosis.

Dr James Linden is the managing director of GreenLight Health, a Dublin-based research firm that’s taking stock of the health benefits of the drug – recognised the world over, but the use of which in Ireland threatens those suffering from myriad medical...

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