Jail for using medical marijuana to save your life

With bureaucrats, irony is lost, and sometimes fairness can be skewed. This is our follow-up to our article on Amiruddin Nadarajan Abdullah, 64, better known as Dr. Ganja or Dr.G. It doesn’t have the best ending, but it’s not the worst either. Can you imagine going to jail for using medical marijuana to save your life?

after dr G had suffered for years, he used medical marijuana to ease the pain and achieve some recovery. Malaysia, which has some of the strictest laws in the world, thought he was better off suffering without marijuana and sentenced him to death when he got better.

Malaysian Princess Tengku Chanela Jamidah lobbied for his rescue and used contacts to save him. The mother of two comes from the Pahang royal family and ran major fashion and beauty brands Thavia and Dida before relocating to the US to reinvent herself as a wellness guru and cannabis activist. She made international news for Dr. G.

After being diagnosed with a painful spinal cord tumor that resulted in the loss of a kidney, Dr. Ganja, who was struggling with chronic pain and chemo-induced fatigue, to seek alternative treatments, which eventually led him to medicinal cannabis in the form of hemp seed oil. It worked wonders for him until he was arrested and charged with distributing hemp seed oil chocolates and brownies. dr Ganja is actually not a doctor. He earned this nickname due to his habit of inviting people with cancer and other diseases to his home and introducing them to his hemp oil medicine. Known as a gentle man with a penchant for poetry, he wanted to help his fellow patients.

dr G, who served in the Malaysian Army for 22 years, was arrested in 2017 and charged with 36 offenses under Malaysia’s Dangerous Drugs Act. His charges included the death penalty after medical marijuana saved his life.

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International pressure was exerted on the country. Following a United Nations decision to recognize the medicinal properties of cannabis, proponents of progressive drug policies hoped countries around the world would keep up with changing attitudes towards the substance, while the global medical marijuana industry thrived with sales of several billion dollars continued to expand. The princess made a big push on social media. We waited until a decision had finally been made.

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The good news is that Dr. Ganja escaped the gallows after Malaysia’s Supreme Court changed the 16 charges against him and instead sentenced him to 9 years in prison.

The judge ordered the sentences to run concurrently from the date of his arrest in May 2017 and that he be released from prison as he had already served a third of his sentence.

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In the modern era, when both the American Medical Association and the United Nations consider medical marijuana to have health benefits, countries like Malaysia have found it difficult to legislate.