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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 War hero and double amputee pleads for cannabis to be legalized 'so I don't have to break the law' 🌿War hero and double amputee pleads for cannabis to be legalized 'so I don't have to break the law'
An Afghanistan war hero who lost both legs in an bomb blast is forced to break the law to get cannabis to ease his pain.
Lance Corporal Callum Brown is now leading calls to legalise the drug for medical use. He wants to see cannabis made available to patients like him who suffer agonising pain 24 hours a day.
Callum, 28, also shattered his pelvis in the huge explosion after he stepped on a boobytrap bomb while on patrol in Helmand five years ago.
Speaking to the Daily Record, he said: “As well as my other injuries, I have no skin on my backside – it’s just thin scar tissue so the nerve damage and the phantom pains are the main reason for smoking.
“It also helps with depression as it’s easy to get a bit down. After seeing kids suffering and mothers of dead children screaming in my face in...
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