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    Use of CBPMs (Cannabis based prescription medications) on site and indoors

    Submitted 1 week ago by Darren Cassidy Expires on 12 May
    Current
    • Wellbeing
    • Facilities
    • Accessibility
    • Equality
    2comments
    I am prescribed cannabis based meds. My idea is the uni creates areas to use these meds in each block, they do not fall under no smoking indoor laws. I ask so people don't have to use the entrance, feeling stigmatised by people. We could use cards to enter these safe spaces, vetted by a letter/prescription. When people need their meds, it is important to have equal access rights to prescriptions, safe places would help many like me. They will need heat detectors not smoke and good ventilation
Darren Cassidy
7:24pm on 13 Nov 24 My idea is that people can have this on a support plan, enabling us to use a room within the block we are situated in. Not having to go all the way to the entrance to medicate, which is reasonable and hard with onlookers commenting.. Employers have started to make this exact adjustment, as people have a legal right to be allowed to use their medications like any other prescription. I realise this is a hot topic, however it is something I wanted to post and not hide from it.
Tracey Taylor
9:32am I have shared this idea with a friend of mine a former student who graduated with first class honours in journalism and she states that the only way she managed to complete her university studies was through the use of CBPMs, she has some amazing ideas and contacts who may be able to provide some really positive promotional outlets for this idea. For example she knows an amazing cannabis journalist and she currently writes for a company called Leafie. She is very eager to be involved with this project/idea as a former student of the University of Derby. She also suggested that introducing facilities would be very beneficial for other students with prescribed meds that are administered in unpleasant ways such as people with diabetes who need regular injections in their thigh and would need to remove clothing such as trousers to administer their injections. Those people currently use the spaces in the disabled toilets, which offer the privacy they need but are not necessarily a healthy environment for those activities. I would love it if you would reach out to me as this idea progresses.