A large auto manufacturer is apparently carrying out a pilot to see if flax straw can be used for car parts and hopes to develop a lorry cab from a mixture of flax, hemp and linseed. A Sheffield company, Union Hemp, manufacuture a 'range of hard-wearing, quality clothing'. Their catalogue, printed on hemp paper, is available from 14 South Gallery, Exchange Street, Sheffield S2 5TR Medicinal use of marijuana With information summarised from a news item in The Independent. In recent years a growing number of people have begun to speak out in favour of the medical use of marijuana, and a perhaps surprisingly large number of doctors agree. Its advocates claim it can provide relief from nausea, pain and muscle spasms, and alleviate symptoms of glaucoma, multiple sclerosis, AIDS, migraine, and other debilitating conditions.
Governments continue to refuse the right to prescribe it for medical use, however.
How much longer it will be possible to refuse it a legitimate place in medicine, may perhaps be judged from the results of a recent survey conducted by the British Medical Association's News Review magazine. In the United States, two Harvard Professors, Lester Grinspoon and James B Bakalar collaborated on the polemical Marihuana, the Forbidden Medicine , which follows a survey of medical evidence with a call for legalisation. You can give a rating to this scheme overall. Click 0-10 below and press the Submit button. DoBe.org or click on the image below.