I have had three major MS attacks. Each time I have deteriorated more.

I had tried smoking pot over the years, but not on many occasions. Last Christmas, I was given a joint to smoke as a present. I had dragged myself, with help, out for Christmas dinner. After a lot of frustration, fretting and struggling, I was installed in my daughter’s home. I smoked the joint after my dinner, and for a few hours, I got the old me back again, as I remember me!

I have been smoking it on and off since, when things get impossible. It helps with spasticity, sleep, pain and bladder dysfunction. It just helps make life bearable for me.

I gave up smoking, as I have Hodgkins, and thought I should do the right thing, then I started again because it helps my MS, so if they legalize cannabis or even better prescribe it in drug form, a lot of people would benefit from it.

How many of us have to convince the world that it helps, and it’s not just a drug to get high on! We know what helps our condition, because the people that this is about, are the ones that are suffering. Try walking in my shoes if you can, because sometimes even I can't walk in them!

I hope one day soon we will get what we want and not feel like criminals.

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