Prison? That's plain outrageous. Here you are more likely to have it confiscated and get slapped on the wrist. Unless that is, you are caught near a school or nursery school, in that case they will cut your balls of. Too many too young children into it these days and that's not the way to start your school day is it.
The UK on the whole may have upgraded cannabis to a class 'B' drug again but that's not to say that your average copper will actually charge you with anything. He's more likely to lecture you on the importance of adhering to the law then nick you.
A friend of mine got busted last year. 60 plants in his garden and another 60 inside in a hydroponic setup. He was 60 when it happened and he claimed and rightly so, that it was purely for his own consumption and to relief some of the chronic pain he's been suffering from in his legs and lower back. He was never charged.
Of course, this is all very much hit and miss these days. If you come across a really obedient copper, yes, he could charge you with possession or intent to supply if things came to a head but most often people are being cautioned and given a slap on the wrist.
My wife has been smoking for almost 20 years now, she is suffering from a massive degenerative spinal condition, restless legs syndrome and infrequent migraines. All hospitals in Germany had one brilliant solution to the problem. Morphine.
Far out and groovy. What a brilliant idea. She was weighing in at less then 36 kilos by the time she told her doctor to go and stick the morphine where the sun doesn't shine and demanded that she be prescribed Sativex instead of a whole host of chemical drugs that she then needed more drugs for to alleviate all the side effects, like insomnia, sickness and nausea.
Have you ever lived with someone undertaking a morphine withdrawal? Let me tell you, not a pretty sight, not a pretty sight at all. I used to have to change the bed linen up to three times a night because she would have sweated through it to such an extent that it was impossible to sleep in it any more. Oh, involuntary muscle spasms, now that's a nice one too. She'd lie on the bed and all of a sudden her muscles would violently contract, making her jump several inches high off the matress. Yes, the delights of morphine.
The funniest thing was when she told the doctor that she had been smoking again and how much it did to relieve all those symptoms. He literally chased us out of his office screaming and shouting abuse at us 'drug addicts' and the like. Nice one, that's what they tought you at university?
It gets better still, though. Not 6 month later he was arrested for posession of cocaine and hoarding a host of pharmaceuticals in his house and had his license revoked. Serves him right the bastard. LOL
Finally, a friend of mine who was a doctor of internal medicine was prepared to write the prescription for Sativex and life became a lot less troublesome for all of us. After all, there you are, paying tons of money into a private medical insurance but when it came to prescribing a naturally produced harmless medication, there are not withdrawal symptoms beyond being a little on edge for about 4-5 days, when you then have to resort to buying from some mafosi.
Ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous. Time to make this available to people like they have done across a lot of countries in Europe and of course in the US.
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