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NHS patients to be given cannabis(UK)
BBC News UK Edition ^
| 8/20/2003
Posted on 08/20/2003 1:57:43 PM PDT by JerseyHighlander
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Looks like the Green Isles are returning to a natural drug used for over 2 millenia in London. Hundreds of hash pipes from the Roman conquest have been found in excavations.
THe NHS is cash strapped, this is also an indictment on the socialist healthcare system of the country. When Kosovar gnags can sell higher quality higher potency marijuana at a lower cost than the local NHS pharmacist, there's a serious "Atlas Shrugged" inversion of the free market.
To: jmc813
I know you post to a drug ping list, but I dont know the name of the list.
How was IT? I d/l'ed the show on livephish, sounded great.
To: JerseyHighlander; *Wod_list
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posted on
08/20/2003 2:06:44 PM PDT
by
MrLeRoy
(The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. - Jefferson)
To: MrLeRoy
You pang? Correct title:
NHS Patients To Be Given Cannabis Extract In Capsule Form
To: JerseyHighlander
"In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration has approved the oral use of dronabinol, a cannabis derivative, for people with Aids."This is sloppy journalism. Dronabinol is not a cannabis derivative. How can you study the effectiveness of cannabis if the product you're testing is a designer drug? It will provide some pain relief in the target group, however. A legitimate test for the effectiveness of cannabis therapy, I think not.
I agree with your assesment of the socialist health care system.
To: bigfootbob
A legitimate test for the effectiveness of cannabis therapy, I think not. Get over it. Smoked marijuana has no future as a medicine. (Institute of Medicine; ref. FR MrLeroy)
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posted on
08/20/2003 3:53:54 PM PDT
by
cinFLA
To: JerseyHighlander
Hundreds of hash pipes from the Roman conquest have been found in excavations. Interesting. And all this time I thought it was the lead in the water that caused the collapse of the Roman Empire.
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posted on
08/20/2003 3:56:12 PM PDT
by
cinFLA
To: JerseyHighlander
Sorry. No toking.
"The British Medical Association has said that only cannabinoids - part of the cannabis plant - should be used in medicine."
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posted on
08/20/2003 3:57:55 PM PDT
by
cinFLA
To: cinFLA
of course,when the nhs finds out how stoned the patients are and that they don't mind how bad the health care they get is,the nhs will keep all their patients stoned all the time....could save a ton of money....
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posted on
08/20/2003 5:57:07 PM PDT
by
fishbabe
To: cinFLA
"Smoked marijuana has no future as a medicine."Maybe not, but they should at least test cannabis if they are saying they are testing cannabis, don't you think...never mind.
To: cinFLA
Smoked marijuana has no future as a medicine. It could help sick people who are suffering TODAY---but the WODdies don't care about them.
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posted on
08/21/2003 7:06:03 AM PDT
by
MrLeRoy
(The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. - Jefferson)
To: cinFLA
Correctamundo.
From a related article:
"The study was welcomed by the British Medical Association, which said that although marijuana itself isn't suitable for medical use, cannabis-derived medicines might have potential."
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WOD Ping
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posted on
08/21/2003 9:06:16 AM PDT
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jmc813
(Check out the FR Big Brother 4 thread! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/943368/posts)
To: JerseyHighlander
Thanks for the heads-up!
How was IT? I d/l'ed the show on livephish, sounded great.
It was great! Logistically, there were issues (7 hour traffic jam, foot-deep mud, not sleeping for 3 days, etc.), but the shows more than made up for it. Definitely the best festival musically that I've been to.
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posted on
08/21/2003 9:09:08 AM PDT
by
jmc813
(Check out the FR Big Brother 4 thread! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/943368/posts)
To: robertpaulsen
You pang?Pang. I like that. I'm going to start using it.
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posted on
08/21/2003 9:09:51 AM PDT
by
jmc813
(Check out the FR Big Brother 4 thread! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/943368/posts)
To: jmc813
Pang is past tense of ping.
With apologies to Maynard G. Krebs.
To: bigfootbob
Maybe not, but they should at least test cannabis if they are saying they are testing cannabis, don't you think...never mind. I think it is very clear:
Controlled study
"They will receive a capsule containing standardised cannabis extract or a capsule containing tetrahydrocannabinol - the active ingredient in cannabis.
The remaining patients will receive either a standard pain-relieving drug or a dummy pill."
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posted on
08/21/2003 9:51:25 AM PDT
by
cinFLA
To: MrLeRoy
It could help sick people who are suffering TODAY---but the WODdies don't care about them. Like you really care. You goal is for ALL drugs to be legalized!
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posted on
08/21/2003 9:53:06 AM PDT
by
cinFLA
To: cinFLA
It could help sick people who are suffering TODAY---but the WODdies don't care about them. Like you really care.
I care enough to let them get the medicine they need---which is more than you can say.
You goal is for ALL drugs to be legalized!
How does that harm sick people who need medicinal marijuana?
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posted on
08/21/2003 9:56:15 AM PDT
by
MrLeRoy
(The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. - Jefferson)
To: cinFLA
Get over it. Smoked marijuana has no future as a medicine.Why? Could it be because multi billion dollar pharcoms can't compete against sumthin that grows anywhere (except the polar regions).
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posted on
08/21/2003 10:01:48 AM PDT
by
EBUCK
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