{"id":1256,"date":"2017-04-24T14:28:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T13:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/2017\/04\/24\/organisers-420-cannabis-event-platt-fields-press-case-medicinal-use-cannabis\/"},"modified":"2017-04-24T14:28:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T13:28:58","slug":"organisers-420-cannabis-event-platt-fields-press-case-medicinal-use-cannabis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/organisers-420-cannabis-event-platt-fields-press-case-medicinal-use-cannabis\/","title":{"rendered":"Organisers of 420 cannabis event in Platt Fields press case for medicinal use of cannabis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xg7imkXAuxs\" width=\"450\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>More than 1,000 people attended Manchester&#39;s 420 celebration in Platt Fields Park on Sunday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The event was in part to promote what many users&nbsp;claim are&nbsp;the drug&#39;s medicinal benefits.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cookie, one of the group&#39;s organisers, told us how happy she was with how the event went: &quot;I&#39;m buzzing so hard, still I can&#39;t believe how well it went<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We are all so lucky and blessed I can&#39;t wait for what&#39;s to come!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Cannabis is illegal in the UK, but there was no police presence at&nbsp;Sunday&#39;s&nbsp; event, with hundreds of people openly smoking the drug.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he felt like a criminal for attending the event, one&nbsp;participant told the Northern Quota: &quot;Obviously we&#39;re not criminals. Can you show me the victim of our so-called &#39;crime&#39;?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Many people attending the event said they used cannabis&nbsp;medicinally.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FTheNorthernQuota%2Fvideos%2F309807072772592%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=400\" style=\"border: currentColor; border-image: none; overflow: hidden;\" width=\"400\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Cannabis is classified by the government as a Schedule I substance, meaning that is has no medicinal value. Jeff&nbsp;Ditchfield&nbsp;says he distributes cannabis oil to many ill people, including over 100 terminally ill children,&nbsp;through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/budbuddiesUK\/\">Bud Buddies<\/a>,&nbsp;defying what he calls an &quot;unjust law&quot;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FTheNorthernQuota%2Fvideos%2F309847686101864%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=400\" style=\"border: currentColor; border-image: none; overflow: hidden;\" width=\"400\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One of those he has helped is Callie Blackwell, whose Deryn wasdiagnosed with terminal cancer and whom she treated with cannabis oil.<\/p>\n<p>She has appeared on national TV to talk about her experience with <a href=\"http:\/\/medicalmarijuana.co.uk\/mother-treats-sons-cancer-with-cannabis\/\">medicinal cannabis<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She claims that cannabis helped her son&#39;s recovery but admits that more research&nbsp; into the benefits of using cannabis medicinally is needed.<\/p>\n<p>Reggae-dub&nbsp;blasted throughout the day on the sound system that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/Mannijuana\/?hc_ref=SEARCH\">Mannijuana<\/a>,&nbsp;the group who organised the entire event, set-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 1,000 people attended Manchester&#39;s 420 celebration in Platt Fields Park on Sunday.&nbsp; The event was in part to promote what many users&nbsp;claim are&nbsp;the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1216,"featured_media":1255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4972,1],"tags":[922,930,929,147,928,931,927],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorised","tag-922","tag-bud-buddies","tag-callie-blackwell","tag-cannabis","tag-jeff-ditchfield","tag-mannijuana","tag-medicinal-cannabis"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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