Pot-based prescription drug looks for FDA OK

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Ernst

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[h=1]Pot-based prescription drug looks for FDA OK[/h]http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/01/22/pot-based-prescription-drug-looks-for-fda-ok/
Wow it feels good to have my news-fix..

AN FRANCISCO – A quarter-century after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first prescription drugs based on the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, additional medicines derived from or inspired by the cannabis plant itself could soon be making their way to pharmacy shelves, according to drug companies, small biotech firms and university scientists. A British company, GW Pharma, is in advanced clinical trials for the world's first pharmaceutical developed from raw marijuana instead of synthetic equivalents — a mouth spray it hopes to market in the U.S. as a treatment for cancer pain. And it hopes to see FDA approval by the end of 2013.

Sativex contains marijuana's two best known components — delta 9-THC and cannabidiol — and already has been approved in Canada, New Zealand and eight European countries for a different usage, relieving muscle spasms associated with multiple sclerosis.
FDA approval would represent an important milestone in the nation's often uneasy relationship with marijuana,
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The piss take for me is that the UK government has licenced GW so that they can grow their thousands of cannabis plants in the UK, where it is completely illegal and the government refuses to accept cannabis as a medical item, but is happy to allow sativex, which is just canabinoids in alcohol. Users claim that the alcohol screws with them whereas a purely cannabis based alternative does the same job without the side effects. It costs £11 a day per patient for this stuff. The government seems to have taken a page from the black markets book, and licenced it to one and only one company so that there can be no competition or reason to lower prices, meaning that GW earn profits in the multi millions all of which the UK government get's a lovely big slice of.
 
Isn't it a crappy turn of things.

Keep it illegal so it's value is high then slowly allow some to make billions while sending others to prison.
 
thepaintedchef said:
No matter how they try to synthesize it, there will never be a substitute for the holy plant. Plain and simple
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So far as i'm aware they are not synthesizing it. They just take their cannabis and mix it around in alcohol to remove the good stuff so they can discard the plant matter, then they add a splash of peppermint to mask the taste. One would assume that let it evaporate off and you'd just be left with a hash.
 
I have to agree however, we are doing a bang-up job turning the genetics into commercial only strains.

We need a more diversified seed sharing and saving program. Heirloom varieties are varieties that are not necessarily the best commercial plants but we save them because they are our gift to the future people.
 
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