And why wouldn’t he? I would
If you are dying from cancer why wouldn’t you use cannabis to ease the suffering?
You’d be dead before it ever made it to court anyway.
The late broadcaster Sir Paul Holmes turned to marijuana before his death, his widow has revealed.
Lady Deborah Holmes said her husband was not a drug user but “in the final weeks it was the one thing that could give him peace and comfort”.
Sir Paul died age 62 in February 2013 after battling heart problems and the return of prostate cancer.
His wife told Herald columnist Brian Rudman that he was allergic to morphine and the alternative concoction of drugs “sent him off to la la land”. Read more »

As much at home writing editorials as being the subject of them, Cam has won awards, including the Canon Media Award for his work on the Len Brown/Bevan Chuang story. When he’s not creating the news, he tends to be in it, with protagonists using the courts, media and social media to deliver financial as well as death threats.
They say that news is something that someone, somewhere, wants kept quiet. Cam Slater doesn’t do quiet and, as a result, he is a polarising, controversial but highly effective journalist who takes no prisoners.
He is fearless in his pursuit of a story.
Love him or loathe him, you can’t ignore him.
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