I’m not a stoner, but cannabis makes my condition bearable

Candice McKenzie used to buy her cannabis from a petite lady with an illicit greenhouse in her loft. All the customers were female, and McKenzie, wracked by endometriosis, bought her supply alongside female cancer patients and a multiple sclerosis sufferer who also lived with chronic pain.

“I was effectively breaking the law,” says McKenzie, a mother of two from West Lothian. “It was not something my family wanted me to be doing . . . I am not a stoner.”

But on days when she arrived home from work feeling too nauseous to eat, she found that a joint, a cup of tea and a ginger biscuit in the back garden would dull the symptoms, enabling her to cook tea for her family. “For me

No Byline Policy

Editorial Guidelines

Corrections Policy

Source