Playback: After The Car Crash

The Modern Mann

Matt Hill

Relationships, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 753 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Jim Finch’s life changed forever when his car flipped over in a devastating accident that left him with multiple neurological issues. He developed PTSD, suffered from seizures - and even became afflicted with Tourettes. But the medication he was prescribed was almost as bad: triggering fits, impotence and bloody discharge. Then he discovered cannabis... CONTENT WARNING: interview includes account of suicidal thoughts and suicide attempt, highly offensive language and on-mic drug use. _____________________ Now a registered, legal user of skunk, Jim campaigns for medical marijuana to be made available on the NHS. As he explains in this intense, compelling conversation with Olly, for disabled people who can’t afford a private prescription, the current alternatives are to support the criminal black market, or risk arrest by growing weed themselves. _____________________ In the UK, the Samaritans can be contacted on 116 123. In the US, the National Suicide Prevention Hotline is 1-800-273-8255. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is on 13 11 14. Hotlines in other countries can be found here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So retrospectors, what historical events are we ticking off on this week's run of today in history?
0:04.8	On Monday, the day Italy came to terms with the secret society that ran its institutions.
0:09.3	On Tuesday, when the public first saw the microwave, then forgot about it for two decades.
0:14.2	On Wednesday, why the Spanish Armada was dead in the water.
0:17.6	On Thursday, the man who invented bank holidays.
0:20.3	And on Friday, the original poll tax riot, the man who invented bank holidays. And on Friday, the original
0:21.8	poll tax riot, 600 years before Maggie Thatcher. We discuss this and more on today in history
0:28.1	with the retrospectors. 10 minutes each weekday, wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, Olly Mann
0:34.5	here with our monthly playback, where on the last Friday of each month,
0:39.1	we offer up another chance to discover one of our classic interviews from the extensive
0:43.6	modern man archive. And this month with cannabis back in the news, the mayor of London is
0:50.0	calling for partial decriminalisation of cannabis possession, I thought it was worth revisiting my
0:55.9	interview with Jim Finch. It's one of my all-time favourite episodes of the show. Jim's life
1:01.8	changed forever after a devastating accident that left him with multiple neurological issues,
1:07.9	including Tourette's, but he found that medical marijuana could help, yet on the NHS,
1:15.5	it wasn't available to him. Jim's an incredible guest. You really feel like you're living his
1:21.2	experiences alongside him, and I'm pleased to say I've got a 2025 update from Jim to bring you
1:27.4	at the end of the interview.
1:29.1	That's after the car crash, this month's modern man playback.
1:33.2	And it all starts next.
1:59.0	Now, as you know, we absolutely love getting your suggestions of people we should feature on the show, people with stories and experiences you think deserve a wider audience. And back in the summer, man fan Rob emailed us to suggest that
2:04.0	we might interview Jim Finch. And Rob, I am so glad that you did. Thank you very much. What you are
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