another high!
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Friday November 08, 2002 18:41
by pat c
Cannabis drugs pass testing 'milestone'
Cannabis-based drugs could be prescribed in the UK as early as 2003, following successful final-stage trials in patients with multiple sclerosis. Compared with standard treatments alone, the drugs significantly improved symptoms of MS and reduced pain caused by other types of nerve damage, GW Pharmaceuticals has announced. The company is the sole UK holder of a licence to cultivate and supply cannabis for medical research. (More at New Scientist. Two in a row. What next? I always thought Cocaine was good for my Sinusitis.)
Comments (1 of 1)
Jump To Comment: 1because it marks the beginning in Europe of drug sales already piloted and tested in the USA.
These drugs are an attempt to synthesise effects of plants and remove the "other effects".
I support the cultivation of cannabis as it is a plant playing a neccesary and vital role in the ecosystem, a role in the future which shall allow for bio-mass energy sourcing and fibre manufacture. It was in this vein that activists distributed and cultivated over a million hemp seeds in public locations in Ireland and the UK from 1993-2001.
Cannabis is a plant, it belongs in the countryside and garden. The same for Coca and Opium. They are plants belonging to the biosphere and are a natural and integral part of their home ecosystems. The drug problems that have been given us by numerous western governments are not the fault of the plants, it follows that bio/chemical attacks on the plants shall damage ecosystems. We have serious drug / health / social problems caused by the synthesis of psycho-active or narcotic plants, but that shall never be reason to attempt to rid the planet of those plants. The development of "cannabis" drugs is part of a wider agenda to fully synthesise an indiginous european plant, it is an example of "pharmo-corp-greed" and the issues it raises include mismanagement of health programmes by states, manipulation of criminal social issues for control of the poor, and intellectual copyright of seed.
This is thus no laughing matter.
And cocaine is not that good for sinuses, I should recommend citrus oil or lavender.
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