Cannabis
Movers and Shakers: a podcast about life with Parkinson's
Podot
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
On today's Movers & Shakers, we're putting down our pints and rolling a joint talking about how cannabis could be an important part of Parkinson's treatment. Subject to stigma over its use, have we been ignoring the therapeutic qualities of the plant? To discuss this, we talk to Professor Mike Barnes, a world expert in medical cannabis, and hear from many of our listeners who have dabbled with the various strains. With uses for everything from pain to sleep, this is an in-depth look at a much-maligned treatment option.
Sponsored by Albion Chambers.
Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, Gillian Lacey-Solymar, Mark Mardell, Paul Mayhew-Archer, Sir Nicholas Mostyn and Jeremy Paxman.
Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot.
Sound mixing by Ewan Cameron.
Music by Alex Stobbs.
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| 0:00.0 | Pod-O. |
| 0:02.5 | You're listening to Movers and Shakers, a podcast about living with Parkinson's. |
| 0:13.4 | The show is generously sponsored by Albion Chambers Bristol, a preeminent set of barristers, |
| 0:18.6 | specialising in providing the highest quality legal advice and representation in criminal, family, inquest and regulatory law. |
| 0:29.1 | Hello and welcome to another edition of our brilliant award-winning podcast. |
| 0:35.6 | Don't know. |
| 0:36.0 | Movers and shakers. Don't laugh, Paul. Let's see who's here. I'm Nicholas Mostyn. I'm Rory Kethlyn Jones. Paul Mayhew Archer. Mark Maudel. Gillian Lacey Solvon. Now today we're going to be discussing cannabis. Specifically, we're going to be discussing medicinal cannabis and whether it can be used to treat Parkinson's symptoms. |
| 0:55.0 | And we have with us a very special guest, Professor Mike Barnes, a consultant neurologist |
| 0:59.9 | who is the national, possibly the world guru, on the use of medicinal cannabis. |
| 1:05.1 | Hello, Mike. |
| 1:06.1 | Hello, thank you for asking me. |
| 1:07.4 | It's great to have you here. |
| 1:08.3 | This is what your website says. |
| 1:10.0 | From his work in helping to bring Satyvex to market in the early 2000s to his groundbreaking report on the evidence for medical cannabis for the all-party parliamentary group on drug reform policy in 2016, Professor Barnes is the UK's leading medical cannabis expert. But before we ask you some questions, I'm going to go around |
| 1:28.3 | the table and ask if any of us has self-medicated with cannabis to alleviate symptoms. And I |
| 1:34.4 | will admit that I've done it, and I'll explain so in just a minute, but let's go around the |
| 1:38.3 | table and ask if anybody else has. Gillian, have you? I have. Ha have. Ah! Totally lawfully, I hope. |
| 1:44.4 | Totally lawfully, indeed. |
| 1:45.9 | It was not of my student days, but it was about five years ago. |
| 1:50.4 | I went on a Parkinson's boot camp in Canada. |
| 1:53.8 | Canada, a very sensible country. |
| 1:55.2 | And they took us all, every single person, they sort of loaded us into a bus and took |
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