Mr X and the Search for Medicinal Cannabis in the UK
I sit in a brightly lit doctors surgery in central Amsterdam. It’s clean, modern and pristine. A team of receptionists see to patients sitting waiting to my left. Sitting to my right is a UK pain patient who, for the sake of anonymity, we’re going to call Mr X.
Mr X uses cannabis for his pain caused by spinal damage due to injuries sustained whilst working in the armed forces. He’s a UK citizen and he’s here to get a prescription he can’t get from his doctor at home in London.
Mr X is young, talkative and passionate about what he’s doing. He’s not just in it for himself either:
“We’re going to do this, we’re going to get patients their medicine, we’re going to make a fool of the government saying ‘This is bad, this isn’t medicine’, we’re going to show them how much money they’re losing out on.”
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