We grow cannabis to ease our son’s suffering
CANNABIS therapy has been a godsend for Jeremy Bester, who has had a devastating brain injury since he was six, says his mum, Lyn Cleaver.
Ms Cleaver has appealed to federal Parliament to approve a proposal to legitimise the growing of cannabis by “hundreds, if not thousands” of Tasmanians for medical use.
The Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee on legalising medical cannabis last week recommended support for the Regulator of Medicinal Cannabis Bill 2014.
Ms Cleaver said a viral illness had left her son, 24, permanently brain damaged and suffering severe and uncontrolled epileptic seizures.
She said last year, when other medications were not working and doctors had ruled out brain surgery and dietary measures, Mr Bester’s family decided to act.
Ms Cleaver said as well as easing his symptoms, cannabis therapy had enabled the dosage of two pharmaceutical drugs to be dramatically reduced and a third...
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