Hey, David in the UK. As Bill Clinton used to say, “I feel your pain.” I’m a recovering cancer patient, with an accent on the “recovering.” What you are attempting to do is noble and you’re definitely one of the good guys!

There seems to be a lot of confusion in this thread with regard to the status of medical marijuana in the United States. So far, eleven states have passed laws making it legal within their borders, provided a doctor prescribes it. Dozens of professional medical associations, including Nurses and Doctors, have come out in favor of prescribing pot for certain ailments.

The federal government, on the other hand, is still in the dark ages. They are sticking to the letter of the law, which classified marijuana as a Schedule One drug, alongside heroin, in 1970. There were political reasons for this—all you have to know is that Richard Nixon was President at the time. (Does that answer your questions?)

I happen to live in one of the eleven states that allow medpot, and I literally sing its praises often. I am also an amateur musician, who appears at small functions and I write my own songs. I also sing a lot of Dylan and Lennon, since they both helped to expand my mind and open my heart.

To send a used 600W grow light fixture to England would be perfectly within the law. As David says, most of the equipment used by grow rooms throughout North America, is the same equipment used by people who grow lettuce, cucumbers, and orchids. Many of these are grown indoors, under artificial light, using hydroponics. The same as cannabis.

Please visit my website to read about how a medical marijuana grow room is put together. I was fortunate enough to find a very helpful website, Advanced Nutrients Medical, which specializes in helping legal medical marijuana patients to be brave and start growing their own.

I use their 100% organic line of nutrients, including Iguana Juice and Mother Earth Super Tea, Grow and Bloom. I get superb results with these products and my wife and I enjoy the most robust, best tasting medicine around. Claire suffers from excruciating migraines and thus is also a medpot patient.

I also use Advanced Nutrients inoculants like Voodoo Juice for strong roots and Scorpion Juice for Systemic Acquired Resistance (SAR) which helps to ward off many pathogens. Even though we grow indoors, pests and diseases can still be a problem. For this reason Advanced Nutrients advised us to use Barricade and Protector, to strengthen our cannabis plants from within and stop powdery mildew specifically, which occurs frequently when humidity is high.

I am not in a position to donate right now, but I wish you the best and perhaps these words of advice were helpful on some level.