Posted on 08/20/2003 1:57:43 PM PDT by JerseyHighlander
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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.
NHS Patients To Be Given Cannabis Extract In Capsule Form
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.
Get over it. Smoked marijuana has no future as a medicine. (Institute of Medicine; ref. FR MrLeroy)
Interesting. And all this time I thought it was the lead in the water that caused the collapse of the Roman Empire.
Maybe not, but they should at least test cannabis if they are saying they are testing cannabis, don't you think...never mind.
It could help sick people who are suffering TODAY---but the WODdies don't care about them.
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."
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.
Pang. I like that. I'm going to start using it.
Pang is past tense of ping.
With apologies to Maynard G. Krebs.
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."
Like you really care. You goal is for ALL drugs to be legalized!
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?
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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