This is just another letter from a fellow MS sufferer vouching for how effective I find cannabis in relieving some of the unpleasant symptoms of mild MS.

I was first told of the diagnosis of MS in 1991 (on my 35th birthday) this was just a few weeks following an unbelievably acrimonious divorce, my wife having thrown me out claiming that she was sick of me being tired all the time, and then telling her solicitor that I was a heroin addict, a totally fabricated claim which I, staggering and slurring my speech like a vaudeville drunk, did a very poor job of denying.

Realizing that the vicious cycle of anger and frustration in which I found myself caught, was exacerbating my symptoms I decided to try smoking some pot, after a three year period of abstinence, as to quote Ken Kesey, "it makes you feel pretty philosophical about most things".

I was totally unprepared for the way in which the sensation of 'tight bands and writhing rats' in my legs vanished for the first time in months, as did the pain in my face. Though it did not stop the vertigo, it totally removed the nausea and 'sea sickness' which accompanies it. For the first time in months I slept like a baby, without having to get up and empty my bladder every 2 hours.

Though I would not go so far as to say that this was the beginning of my recovery, I would certainly say that it marked the end of my decline!

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