15th May 2005 Speech For Cannabis March, London.

Hello everyone - I am Grandma - and if you are not lucky enough to have one, you can adopt me!

I am here to tell you that it was a year gone February that I was introduced to Cannabis, and when your 3 years away from 70 - it was quite an experience. I was given 2 cigarettes within a space of 10 hours, and for the first time in about 30 years I actually slept for 12 hours. Oh! It was wonderful.

However, smoking it affected a throat complaint I have, and so I learned to cook with it and the rest is history. But the most important thing I did as a result, was to join the Legalise Cannabis Alliance, which is when I had the greatest Education in the positive effect Cannabis could have on all our lives, not just because it is a great relaxant and a brilliant pain killer, but also because it would make our atmosphere safe and non toxic, if the oil from it was made into petrol, because Vegetable Oil such as Sunflower Oil, Rape Seed Oil and Cannabis Oil is more safe than the crude oil, which the big oil companies are pumping out of the earth. And Yes, we do have enough land in this country which is not being farmed at present, and it would provide enough Petrol to cope with every vehicle in need of fuel. This will put an end to the Toxic atmosphere we have to tolerate with Petrol made from CRUDE OIL.

But that unsafe, crude, dirty oil, is what the Pharmaceutical companies make our medication from, which you get from the Dr’s the surgeries, the Hospitals and the Supermarkets, and it is causing unnecessary pain, suffering and deaths in this country. 15 months ago, when I was ill, and feeling suicidal, my son went into my medicine cabinet and found four medications, in my medicine cabinet, and this is the reason why I did my research. Two of the medications you get from a Dr or Hospital - the other two, you get from a Chemist shop or a supermarket – they all have between 28 and 50 side effects - which is not bad, because at least 65% of medication has up to 80 side effects., so these are, I suppose, less harmful.

I will only tell you 5 of the side effects in each medication - plus one extra one, in the co-codomol;