Wake Up Malaysians
Time To Create
Public Awareness
KEPUTUSAN HUKUMAN GANTUNG KES 39B MUHAMMAD LUKMAN (HEALTHCARE)
“Ini bukan salah Hakim, Yang Arif hanya
menjalankan tugas menurut sistem undang-undang lapuk, dia tak tahu tentang
kebenaran (perubatan ganja) ini. Saya masih percaya keputusan belum muktamad.
Jika telah muktamad, maka sememangnya undang-undang Malaysia sangat kejam.”
–
Lukman (HealTHCare)
Time to create public
awareness on the use of Medicinal Marijuana in Malaysia The name
itself...marijuana or cannabis or ganja has its taboo in it.. one must know the
terminology of drugs alone differs from drug abuse. Many are involved in
recreational use of marijuana, heroine, meth, ice and this should strongly be
differed from medicinal purposes. So why marijuana/cannabis/ganja? Because
worldwide research has shown that the active ingredient in cannabis with the
right formulation has a powerful healing power than common synthetic medicine.
For example cannabis has been proven its effectivity in healing arthritis,
diabetes, thyroid, glaucoma and many other chronic systemic diseases. It has
been recently used in autism children as well as a remedy for controlling pain
and has shown scientific evidence in curing cancer patients. Why then is it
being prohibited of its usage? Many countries have adapted the law of banning
this item as it has been seen as a dangerous item which may cause more serious
addiction as with other prohibited drugs. But mind you as it has been shown in
many recent research that cannabis could cause minimal addiction to users
unlike other drugs. Even our very own Ketum leaves can cause serious addiction
just by consuming it via drinking its boiled soaked ketum water.
In many countries such as
certain states in the US, UK the medicinal use or cannabis is allowed with
special permit to practitioners and consumers/patients. It can be prescribed
with care to those patients diagnosed with certain chronic diseases and these patients
are registered with the Health Office. If ever this is allowed in Malaysia, the
way it should be prescribed should be transparent and detail to ensure this
drug is not simply being misused as recreational or simply a supplement. Here
in Malaysia, we do not have the permission to deliver these good drugs to
desperate needy patients as those who has been found possess, trafficking or
consuming it will be answerable to our law. While Argentina, Thailand is
passing the law very soon, sadly our very own Medical Marijuana Practitioner is
being sentence to death for trying to save more than 800 lives of people having
chronic illness where our modern medicine failed to cure.
Muhammad Lukman obviously
didn't breed addicts or became a drug addict himself but he had tried to save
lives with what he believed in.. he prescribed them with cannabis oil. The
cannabis oil prescribed does not make one 'high' or addicted. Its simply a
medicine for chronic diseases.
CHANGE YOUR MINDSET on
MEDICAL MARIJUANA.. To help the government to start thinking and accepting then
followed with a decision to change the law and allow practicing of medical
marijuana, in house clinical trial is deemed essential. When I first proposed
this thought and idea on this clinical research on Medical Marijuana, I
received a blocks of good and bad from my fellow researchers. Some supported as
they have previously encounter some readings on the benefits and sort of
believe or maybe keen to know more, nevertheless some gave me a definite No and
surprisingly the higher management too strongly discouraged my going to visit
the facilities and research at Chiang Mai University even though special
arrangements with Thailand Cannabis Corporation has initially gave its green
light. When hey, I didn't plan my journey to be a cannabis addict or planned to
be a millionaire by trafficking cannabis to Malaysia Tanah Air Ku but simply
its a process to gather knowledge and prepare me for the clinical research
which I have painstakingly planned with a group of cannabis activists from
various NGO groups in Malaysia. My team and I had gone to The Cure and Care
Clinic previously known as Pusat Serenti in Sungai Besi (suggested by AADK under KDN) to get them to endorse
my clinical trial proposal and various forums with officers and counsellors
just to enable me to understand this subject deeper without prejudice.
So here we are with the
unamended strictest drug law and yet Malaysia holds one of the highest rate of
drug addicts. If you are reading this please take some time to goggle and read
more about medicinal marijuana or medicinal cannabis. Judge it yourself and if
you do believe in it what would your stand be for Muhammad Lukman? Does he well
deserved to the sentence put upon him by the Malaysian Government? You be the
judge. And may prayers be with all of us and our love ones so we do not
encounter any illness which is incurable with synthetic medicine.. and lose
hope for life.. where some people in other 'civilised' countries manages the
same kind of illness with the benefit of medical marijuana treatment.
Sigh!
Do we need to sacrifice a
life or two just to amend the drug act? Wake up Malaysians...
#savelukman
#YesToMedicalMarijuana
#MedicalMarijuanaInMalaysia
Salam kemanusiaan dari saya.
Prof Madya Dr Haliza Abdul Mutalib
Pakar Optometris
Program Optometri & Sains Penglihatan,
Fakulti Sains Kesihatan
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
