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Kelly, who has lung cancer, said on Monday she had exhausted all legal pain relief and had resorted to the black market to obtain cannabis oil. But she did not like putting people in an awkward position to help her.
"I've tried [cannabis oil]. I'm not promoting it as a curative, but as a pain relief it's incredibly effective for me and it doesn't make me feel sick, which morphine does."
She took the drug at night to make sure being stoned would not disrupt her day.
"It just seems absolutely insane that I've got no idea what I'm taking, how much I should take or how it's manufactured – it's crazy."
There were plenty of other countries accepting that...
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