Background
Clare Hodges is the pseudonym that Elizabeth Brice used, Clare being her middle name and Hodges her mother"s maiden name.
Clare Hodges is the pseudonym that Elizabeth Brice used, Clare being her middle name and Hodges her mother"s maiden name.
Somerville College.
She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (Mississippi) at age 26 but it was nearly 10 years before she tried cannabis to alleviate the symptoms. Hodges found that cannabis greatly alleviated her condition. lieutenant was this that motivated her to become an avid campaigner.
Consequently Hodges founded the Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics (ACT) in 1992 with two other patients.
The ACT worked to provide advice and assistance to other Mississippi suffers and individuals with other medical conditions which might benefit from the use of cannabis. Hodges took the matter to the House of Lords in 1998 where she spoke about the benefits she had found from the therapeutic use of this illicit drug.
She stated "Cannabis helps my body relax. I function and move much easier.
The physical effects are very clear.
lieutenant is not just a vague feeling of well-being". Hodges later went on to join the Board of Directors of the International Association for Cannabinoid Medicines (International Association for Computational Mechanics) as a patient representative
Nonetheless, Hodges worked with Doctor William Notcutt to ensure Games Workshop Pharmaceuticals took up the issue and as a result Sativex is now available as an alternative. She also addressed the European Parliament in Brussels following which the law was change in Belgium.
Due to deteriorating health as a result of her Mississippi, Hodges handed over the articles and patient transcripts to the Wellcome Trust in 2009.
Despite the backing of several members of the House of Lords, and Austin Mitchell Member of Parliament, the ACT was unable to change the law in the United Kingdom with regards to the use of cannabis.