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Medicinal Cannabis May Be Available in Two Years
Posted by CN Staff on October 06, 2002 at 16:30:56 PT
By Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor
Source: Independent UK
The world's oldest euphoric drug is poised to make a return to the medicine cabinet. Cannabis, reputedly taken by Queen Victoria to quell her period pains but banished from Britain's schedule of medicinal drugs in 1971, is on the point of winning scientific backing for its role in easing the symptoms of chronic disease. This week the Medical Research Council is due to announce that it has recruited the last of 660 patients to a £1.2m trial of cannabis-based medicines in the treatment of multiple sclerosis, the largest in the world. 
Most of the patients recruited over the past two years have already completed the 15-week trial, in 30 centres round the UK. Although final results will not be available until next summer, researchers are optimistic. Dr John Zajicek, consultant neurologist at Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, who is leading the research, said: "I'm fairly confident we are going to find an effect in reducing spasticity, or muscle spasms, and it is also going to have an effect on bladder control. "Anecdotally some patients have had tremendous benefit from it. One or two who couldn't walk or go to the loo found they were able to when they were on the drug. There have been some whose lives have changed dramatically." Next month, a venture capital firm, GW Pharmaceuticals, is due to report preliminary results from its own Phase III trials of cannabis-based medicines in patients with multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury and other conditions. Phase III trials are the largest and most rigorous, and must show positive results before a drug can be licensed. Last week the company published results from an earlier, smaller Phase II trial which showed that 28 out of 34 patients suffering severe pain benefited from the medicines and had elected to continue on the trial. Geoffrey Guy, GW's executive chairman, said: "One can be confident the Phase III trials are going to yield results reflective of Phase II." If such hopes are fulfilled, cannabis-based medicines could be on the market in two to three years. The National Institute for Clinical Excellence, the government watchdog on new medicines, has been alerted by its horizon scanning unit in Birmingham, whose job is to spot drugs in development before they hit the NHS. The medicinal benefits of cannabis have been known for at least 2,000 years. Its analgesic properties were described by the British herbalist Nicholas Culpepper in 1653. Two drugs based on the active constituent tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) have been used in the UK for over 30 years to treat nausea in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, although their use has declined as better anti-emetics have been developed. Medicines derived from the cannabis plant are being tested by drug companies around the world as treatments for pain, stiffness, tremor, weak bladder, loss of appetite and high blood pressure. It is being tested in people with behavioural disturbance caused by Alzheimer's and in sufferers from Parkinson's disease. Research is also going on into its role in stimulating appetite in cancer and Aids patients ­ cannabis has long been known to give users the "munchies". But one hurdle remains to be overcome. Scientists have not so far succeeded in isolating cannabis's medicinal properties from its euphoria-inducing ones. Although patients in both trials have not got high, that is believed to be because they were taking low doses. "Most of the active ingredients of cannabis can give a high. What the Government wants is a drug that can be used without being abused," Dr Zajicek said. In the 1970s, researchers discovered morphine-like opioid receptors in the spinal cord that led to the development of epidural painkillers, which did not have the psychoactive effects of morphine. They are now widely used in childbirth, after surgery, and increasingly for intractable pain such as that caused by cancer. Similar receptors for cannabinoids have been identified in the spinal cord, and the hope is that cannabis-based drugs can be developed to target them which would have a painkilling effect without a psychoactive one. With scientists confident that they can harness some of the 60 active constituents of cannabis to alleviate a range of symptoms, millions of pounds are being invested by drug companies in developing unique combinations of the constituents or finding a unique means of delivering them to the body, which would be patentable. As cannabis is a natural plant, neither it nor the oil produced from it can be patented. In the MRC trial, patients were given either THC ­ cannabis oil derived from the whole plant ­ or a placebo in a capsule to be swallowed. The THC was manufactured in California and the cannabis oil was derived from plants grown in Switzerland and processed in Germany. One drawback of using an oral drug is that there is great variation between patients in the dose needed to produce an effect. Patients in the MRC trial were started on a target dose based on their weight, which was adjusted over the first five weeks, depending on side effects. GW Pharmaceuticals have developed an under-the-tongue spray which they claim is absorbed more quickly, making dose adjustment simpler. Their patients received THC or cannabidiol, either alone or in combination, manufactured from cannabis plants grown in a secret location under tight security in southern England. The Multiple Sclerosis Society has taken a close interest in the research, but has declined to fund patients who wished to continue on the drug after the end of the MRC trial ­ to the anger of some of its members. A spokesman said: "There is a tremendous amount of anecdotal evidence that cannabis in various forms can be helpful in alleviating some of the most unpleasant symptoms of MS. "But we also know that there have been people with MS who have had very bad experiences. So the main concern is whether the substance is safe in the long term, because people with MS have a condition that is going to last the rest of their life." 'It was brilliant just to be able to stand'The pills Hazel Walker swallowed as part of the Medical Research Council's (MRC) cannabis trial helped her get out of her wheelchair and walk. She took them for 15 weeks last year and the effect was dramatic."I could walk a couple of lengths of the hallway and do simple things that other people take for granted. It was brilliant, really brilliant," she said.She still doesn't know what was in the pills because the trial was "double blind" to prevent both the patients and their doctors knowing who was taking the active ingredient and who was taking the placebo.But the improvement in her condition was so striking that after a fortnight's break at the end of the trial she elected to go back on the pills for another year and continued to reap the benefits."The first week after I came off the pills I really went downhill. I tried to do things I had got used to and I found I couldn't. When I went back on them I noticed a change again – more mobility and fewer spasms. It is very hard to stand at the sink and wash the dishes if you have got spasms in your legs."Her love life improved, too. "It was brilliant to be able to stand up. It is difficult to get passionate stuck in a wheelchair."Aged 47, she has had multiple sclerosis for seven years. She is confined to a wheelchair and when her husband, a fisherman, is away, she needs two carers to get her up and dressed in the morning and put her to bed at night at their home in Plymouth.The only drugs that have helped during those seven years have been steroids, but they have damaging effects if taken long-term. Medicines based on cannabis are her only hope but now they, too, have been taken away.Funding was only available to provide one year's supply of pills. For Hazel, they ran out this summer. The MRC's researchers applied to the Multiple Sclerosis Society for financial help to continue supplying the drugs, but the society declined.Hazel said: "I was left in limbo. I was annoyed, to be honest. The MS Society says it won't fund the drug, yet it gives benefits to people with MS. It's frustrating."She experimented with herbal cannabis for a while: "I tried it for a fortnight. I sat watching telly and started laughing. I don't know whether it helped because I was giggling all the time.""I didn't fancy going out if I was going to be in the street giggling. People already think if you are in a wheelchair you are practically braindead and if they saw me giggling they would probably think I had lost it altogether. You need your wits about you. My hope now is that the trial is successful, the drug is licensed and I can start taking it again." Note: Pharmaceutical companies invest millions to develop new painkillers as Medical Research Council tests enter their final phase.Complete Title: Medicinal Cannabis May Be Available Within Two YearsSource: Independent (UK)Author: Jeremy Laurance, Health EditorPublished: October 7, 2002Copyright: 2002 Independent Newspapers (UK) Ltd.Contact: letters independent.co.ukWebsite: http://www.independent.co.uk/Related Articles & Web Site:UK Medicinal Cannabis Projecthttp://www.medicinal-cannabis.org/High Hopes for Cannabis Medicine in Britainhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread14345.shtmlCannabis Kills Pain in Medical Trialshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread14299.shtmlNevada Conference Examines Medical Marijuana http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread14282.shtml
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Comment #15 posted by The GCW on October 07, 2002 at 17:04:58 PT
Dan B
I read the phrase "BUSHIT", here at Cnews. Someone else typed it first, here, and I find in convenient, for certain, matters of conveyance.So, I use it. Just did so in fact, at...Cartel Remark Angers Nevada Initiative Advocate http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread14375.shtmlYou know who has actually perhaps killed more Americans than any other American. Why, that's George Bushit, Gov. of Texas, who killed through the death penalty, like, for sport. You know who's 2nd?Jeb Bushit, as Florida's Gov.Aint that the bushits?(You know, I refrain, from bad words))) Shrub, fits too. He has the spirit of a prohibitionist. Is that what Titus 3:9-11, speaks of in describing, "the self-condemned?
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Comment #14 posted by Dan B on October 07, 2002 at 13:36:52 PT:
Used without being abused?
"Most of the active ingredients of cannabis can give a high. What the Government wants is a drug that can be used without being abused," Dr Zajicek said. Sorry, Dr. Zajicek, but there is no such thing as a substance that cannot be abused. I defy you to find one substance in the vast pharmacopoeia that cannot be abused. If it is therapeutically effective, it can be abused. Even if it isn't, it can be abused. Bananas can be abused, if you know how.Look, I realize that many patients will benefit from cannabis-based medicines that have all the positive effects except for the high, but I also understand that the high itself can have healing properties, not the least of which is stress relief. It is well known that many disorders, especially autoimmune disorders, are brought on and/or aggravated by stress. If the high alleviates the stress, so much the better. Perhaps they can develop a "daytime" version and a "nighttime" version of these drugs, like they do with Nyquil and Dayquil. I think that would solve many of the problems brought up in this debate over the safest therapeutically active substance known to humanity.Dan B
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Comment #13 posted by Ethan Russo MD on October 07, 2002 at 07:28:33 PT:
Spread the Word
Try sending this story around to friends, neighbors and politicians. We need a normalization of attitudes surrounding clinical cannabis.
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Comment #12 posted by DANA on October 07, 2002 at 05:27:49 PT
special thanx to p4me
...for the paragraph of the day,,and the link you provided..and your typically superb commentary!..Good stuff!.sincerely.....D
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Comment #11 posted by Dan B on October 07, 2002 at 05:01:03 PT:
Great news
I hope they follow through with this, now. I look forward to this plant being available as a medicine for those who need it. Perhaps these newly developed methods for administering the herb will convince lawmakers here in the U.S. to allow at least these forms of medicinal marijuana as they have allowed Marinol.GCW--I was listening to a Public Enemy CD (Revolverlution, a compilation of older live and new recordings), and I noticed that the song "Son of a Bush" says "Bushit." So, I was wondering if that is where you got the term, or if it is a case of great minds thinking alike. Just curious. Feel free to email me by clicking my name above if you don't want to post your answer as a comment here. Dan B
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Comment #10 posted by DdC on October 06, 2002 at 22:44:01 PT
Fitz Ludlow Relics from the Reefer Madness era 
The 30's through the McArthy era to today's Reefer Mad Drug czar and his minions of D.E.A.th. Reefer Madness has infected this countries paranoid and delusional WoD junkies. Typically "In this stage, the WoD addict becomes a fiend. The pupils of his eyes grow big, his eyes stare wildly, and he grows afraid. "This stage is dangerous to others. He suspects everyone, even his best friends. The one big idea he is likely to have is to kill cananbis users. From California, from the Michigan, and from the Washington D.C., come stories of wild-eyed assassins who have run amuck with Sikorsky Blackhawks and Monsanto poisons, hewing down all they meet. Crooks who do wholesale killings with other Just Us Department personel are in this stage of Reefer Madness...Pray for them but do not pity them for profits and blind following is their goal!Peace, Love and Liberty or Reefermad D.E.A.th!...DdC The Fitz Hugh Ludlow Hypertext Collection 
http://users.lycaeum.org/~sputnik/Ludlow/Perilous Play, by Louisa May Alcott
http://users.lycaeum.org/~sputnik/Ludlow/Texts/perilous.htmlRelics from the Reefer Madness era 
http://users.lycaeum.org/~sputnik/Ludlow/madness.htmlFacts First on Narcotics: Marihuana 
http://users.lycaeum.org/~sputnik/Ludlow/Texts/Facts/facts.html
by JOHN C. ALMACK, Ph.D.
Professor of Education
Stanford University, CaliforniaAUTHOR OF
A Clear Case Against Narcotics, Education for Citizen-ship, Hygiene of the School Child (with L. M. Terman), Modern School Administration, The Beginning Teacher (with A. R. Lang), The Stanford Spelling Series (with E. H. Staffelbach), Research and Thesis Writing, History of the United States (with E. D. Adams), Problems of the Teaching Profession (with A. R. Lang), The School Board Member, et cetera. 1939
PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING ASSSOCIATION MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA
Omaha, Nebraska, Cristobal, Canal Zone, Portland, Oregon "A few days ago I read that a new drug has come to the notice of the police," said Joe. "The paper said that it is being used by young people. It is called marihuana. I shall find out what I can about it." "No one can foretell what the effect of marihuana may be. This is because it acts in different ways on different people, and because the strength differs in different plants. One cigarette from a strong plant may make the smoker raving mad. "The marihuana addict shows three stages of reaction to the drug: Soon after smoking his muscles begin to tremble and his heartbeat runs high. His ears ring, and in his head is a feeling of great heat. Dizziness and cold hands and feet soon appear. "In the second stage, the world round about has become unreal. The addict thinks he is a great radio singer or an actor, and he tries to 'put on a show.' He laughs like an idiot at the slightest happening. All his worries are gone, and he is in a new, wild world, over which he has complete control. "One of the queer delusions is the feeling of floating. He loses all sense of time and distance. He thinks he can send his body where he pleases. "If he is on the fifth floor of a hotel or an apartment, it seems but a step to the ground. He steps out, as he thinks, for a walk in the garden, and lands a broken bundle of bones and flesh on the street below. "In many other queer ways, he shows the power of this vile drug. He thinks he is as tall as a building; a minute seems as long as a year. His eyesight and his hearing fail, or he sees queer sights and hears strange sounds. His laughter turns to weeping. "Imagine a person in this stage at the wheel of an automobile. He has the feeling that he can do anything; that he is taller, stronger, wiser, and more expert than anyone. He tears down the road at seventy-five miles an hour, but thinks he is creeping along. He goes through a red light, which he thought was far off from him. He does not see or hear signals, and time and distance deceive him; the first seems to go slowly, the second seems increased. "In the third stage, the marihuana addict becomes a fiend. The pupils of his eyes grow big, his eyes stare wildly, and he grows afraid. "This stage is dangerous to others. He suspects everyone, even his best friends. The one big idea he is likely to have is to kill. From India, from the Malay States, and from the Philippines, come stories of wild-eyed assassins who have run amuck with a sharp, curve-bladed snickersnee, hewing down all they meet. Cooks who do wholesale killings with butcher knives are in this stage of marihuana madness. "A high-school boy who had been tempted to try a 'reefer' stepped out on the street while in this mad stage. There he saw a crippled bootblack at his stand. "To the boy's crazed brain, the cripple was an enemy, and, rushing home, he came back with a gun and shot the poor bootblack. And, like all addicts who commit crimes while in this stage, he later said he could remember nothing of his act. Why do you think they call it dope?
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Comment #9 posted by p4me on October 06, 2002 at 20:14:52 PT
Paragraph of the day
My paragraph of the day comes from a commentary at Scoop: http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0210/S00004.htmAs the world approaches the point at which half of the total endowment of extractable oil has been consumed, the point is also approaching at which the OPEC 5 countries of the Persian Gulf littoral will produce more than half of total world production. It is inconceivable in the real world that the world’s major power would view this with detachment given that it is also the world’s most profligate user of oil. The obsession of the Americans and the British with Saddam Hussein has perhaps more to do with the fact that he is a nationalist than it does with their ability to purchase his oil After all, he does need to sell it. If this were simply a matter of getting oil, the market would do the job. What is intolerable is that a significant pool of petroleum is under the control of what amounts to an independent producer with a political agenda of his own. That threatens volatility, and volatility threatens profits. But even more important, every major power today with the exception of Russia is a net importer of oil. Control of the Middle Eastern fields and access to and from them confers an advantage far more important than the profits of Halliburton or Exxon. It means control of the world.-------------------------------------------Bill Moyer's show, Now, reflected the consistancy of breakthrough journalism again this weekend. He started his program with the conservative Republican Senator from Texas, Ron Paul, whose message of not so fast with AttackIraq is drown out by the warmongers eager on establishing a new tradition of pre-emptive strikes. Moyer's mentioned a protest of 150,000 people in London recently, a fact that had escaped my attention and he would say that one of the few lonely voices of dissent was Ron Paul.Ron Paul would speak to the dangers of a first strike policy and how other nations in the war might say if the US can do it we can. Senator Paul would start out saying that Iraq has no Air Force and no Navy. He said the military had only a third of the personnel it did 12 years ago and has never been able to shoot down one American plane in the period going back to the Gulf War. He would say that everyone is told the debate is not about pre-emptive strikes but would remark words similar to if not exactly, "It is all about pre-emptive strikes."He went on to comment that the dialogue coming down was not to change the language. He said everything was staged to have the appearance of a debate and would give individuals Congress an opportunity to get things off their chest, but they were not to try to upset or change things.Now had another segment on Frankenfoods and said they entered the market 6 years ago and are now in 70% of the processed foods on American shelves. The term transgenic was presented as taking genes from one organism and placing them in another organism. GMO was presented to easily present the idea of Genetically Modified Organisms. He would speak of 30 countries with serious questions regarding this new technology.It would talk of putting virus genes in corn to protect it from a certain virus. It covered a researcher that introduced a protein found in pig's milk crossed with corn to produce a more nutritious food for pigs. It would end the show with some wit, saying, "The gene is out of the bottle."Most people should know that NOW has coverage of PBS.org and I might not have mentioned the show except for what it said about our Monsanto people that love destroying plants and peoples lives in Colombia and the non-important overspray areas where only peasants without lawyers live. Three-fourths of the soybean fields in America use a Monsanto seed genetically altered to resist a certain pesticide, allowing greater manpower productivity by using chemicals instead of labor to destroy unwanted vegetation.
The seeds are specifically produced to survive spraying from the Monsanto product, Roundup. The seeds are called Roundup Ready and they are sold as a package deal. 75%.I did want to mention the show I used to like that has conditioned me now to control naturally occurring gagging that occurs when you are drown with crap of all kinds including fascist crap. Today, the most brilliant of all political minds did his usual trick of presenting obscure facts in his bluff to convince people what follows is a purely unique correctness at seeing the world of reality. His commentary segment was on the retiring Senator Thurmond who will turn 100 on December 5th. He would say that Fritz Hollings was 70, which would mean he was 10 years old when he graduated the Citadel in 1942. Hollings is 80 and Wills is only slightly diminished in greatness in my mind because of this simple error. He would humor that Hollings was a junior Senator to the 47 year veteran of the Senate and try to marvel everyone with the fact that they have 83 years total service, a record for any state couple. He would present the number I found of interest and often wondered about- the small group of people that have ever been Senators since 1789 totals but 1864. He would say Thurmond served with 22% of them.I will say there are memorable things that you remember quite well. One thing I remember was when Jimmy Carter was on the Tonite Show a couple of years ago. Which I have all the admiration in the world for Jimmy Carter as a man and as a president. It is often said he had a failed presidency and a lot of that had to do with the hostages that Iran took and Busch1 arranged release a few hours after Reagan was sworn in.I think it was that show that he told the joke about the man that went to heaven and was asked what he did good in life to see if he qualified to get in. He would say in his words something like, "In 1982 I put a dollar in the Salvation Army kettle in front of KMart and attendant to the gate would ask what else he did. He would add that he donated a dollar for the relief effort after Hurricane Andrew. So the attendant took the information to St. Peter and told him the man's story and asked what he should do with him. St. Peter said, "Give him his two dollars back and tell him to go to hell."I believe it was that show. Carter would talk of how he came within $77 million dollars of balancing the budget which does not seem to be worthy of praise these days. I will say that I supported his unpopular act of giving up rights to the Panama Canal and it is the courage of doing what he felt was right instead of politically popular that I admire about him to this day. Of course we proved with Noreaga that we control Panama and thus the canal anyway, if there was ever any doubt.Of course Jimmy Carter is a caring person that mottos "Wage Peace" and is a devout Christian. So when Jay asked Carter if their was ever anyone he could never forgive I could not help but remember the answer. The answer would be George Will. He said that Will was in his office and said he stole the notes to the upcoming debate from his desk in the Oval Office. He said in such a close election with Reagan this act might have cost him the election and he said he could not forgive George Will."This Week" would close with a nauseating minute presentation on the little spat between Cheney and Busch on the Smallpox vacination issue. Tommy Thompson wanted 500,000 emergency worker immunized and followed by 10,000,000 fireman, policeman, and other essential people before undertaking immunizing everyone in 2004. The sign-off was expected in August and has not yet been endorsed. Cheney is for and Busch says it could result in lawsuits for the doctors that give the shots. George Stephanopolis challanged my trained gag reflexes when he phrased the conflict in words similar to "Cheney, the libertarian hawk, versus Busch, the compassionate conservative, that has never liked trial lawyers." I hope that doesn't sicken you that a commentator would still lie about calling the Dummy in Residence a compassionate anything, even though if had said compassionate dickhead he would have been half right.DAD-D,1,2
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Comment #8 posted by The GCW on October 06, 2002 at 19:30:52 PT
Not only will cannabis help rid suffering from 
CANCER.It will even help keep You from getting cancer.And then there is the concern that I have, that My 17 year old son, dead of leukemia (cancer, sir), perhaps died because of a crack pot government addiction of its own.US: Pot Shrinks Tumors; Government Knew In '74
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n572/a11.html?1979  "The Madrid study marks only the second time that THC has been administered to tumor-bearing animals. In 1974, researchers at the Medical College of Virginia, who had been funded by the National Institutes of Health to find evidence that marijuana damages the immune system, found instead that THC slowed the growth of three kinds of cancer in mice -- lung and breast cancer, and a virus-induced leukemia."(I don't know if the leukemia, My son had was virus-induced.)(but how much more would We know now, if We didn't stop this vital research from continuing, from 1974?) (the bird used to eat the hemp seeds and We ate the bird. Now the bird eats the bushit, and We eat the bird.)(NOW We have cancer.)(That's bushit.)(It takes a special person to cage a human for using a plant.)
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Comment #7 posted by p4me on October 06, 2002 at 18:56:49 PT
From the Australian- Oct 7
The entire article from todays Australian follows and is from this link: http://theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,5238530%255E12377,00.htmlDope smoking MP riles colleague
By Christopher Niesche, New Zealand correspondent
October 07, 2002NANDOR Tanczos and Craig McNair are both New Zealand politicians and both youth affairs spokesmen for their respective political parties, but that is where the similarity ends, especially when it comes to smoking marijuana.Mr Tanczos, a member of the Green party who is best known for being a Rastafarian with dreadlocks down past his waist, is being investigated by police after his adversary Mr McNair reported him for smoking cannabis.The Green MP and marijuana legalisation advocate admits smoking the drug, or "dak" as it is known across the Tasman, which he says he does monthly for religious reasons.For a long time his pot smoking was ignored around the halls of parliament in Wellington – until Mr McNair was elected last July.A member of Winston Peters' anti-immigration New Zealand First party, Mr McNair took it upon himself to put a stop to his fellow MP's dope smoking and reported him to the police."The reality of the situation is that a member of parliament has openly said he used drugs and broke the law," said the 27-year-old MP after making his written complaint."This man is sending an unacceptable message to the youth of this country. He's saying 'I smoke dope, it's all right for you to get stoned'."Mr Tanczos said laying the complaint was "a cheap little stunt" and Mr McNair should "get a life". The Green MP has been interviewed by police but there has been no word yet on whether he will be charged.The strait-laced Mr McNair could not be any more different from the Greens' youth affairs spokesman, who is in his late 30s.Mr Tanczos gets around on a skateboard, has put out a dance CD and begins his speeches with the invocation: "Greetings to each and everyone in the name of the Creator, the most high Jah Rastafari."While it is almost de rigueur for politicians these days to confess to a youthful flirtation with marijuana, even if they did not inhale, Mr McNair has never been near the stuff, quite literally it seems.Not only has he never smoked cannabis, Mr McNair also says he has never been offered it – probably because of his policy of asking, whenever he is invited to a party, whether anyone is intending to smoke cannabis, and refusing to attend if they are.Mr Tanczos has also attracted criticism from other politicians because a shop he part-owns in Auckland called Hemp sells legal high drugs that are being investigated by health officials, and kits for people to test the purity of their ecstasy.
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Comment #6 posted by FoM on October 06, 2002 at 18:47:53 PT
Thanks The GCW
I hope you are feeling ok. You look a little down in the back there! Just kidding and seriously thanks for the links. I hope I will be able to get the LTE's on CNews in the future. 
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Comment #5 posted by The GCw on October 06, 2002 at 18:44:43 PT
2 Years? Why wait? Who's waiting?
US NY: PUB LTE: Investigate Cancer-Fighting Properties Of Pot
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02/n1215/a03.html?1979 Pubdate: Fri, 28 Jun 2002
Source: Watertown Daily Times (NY)Author: Larry Seguin
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmj.htm (Cannabis - Medicinal)
-----------------US: Pot Shrinks Tumors; Government Knew In '74
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n572/a11.html?1979 Pubdate: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 
Source: San Antonio Current (TX) Author: Raymond Cushing 
------------------Spain: Cannabis Destroys Brain Tumours
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n296/a03.html?1983 Pubdate: Wed, 1 Mar 2000
Source: Press & Journal (UK) 
-------------Spain: Dope Ingredient May Fight Cancer
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n296/a01.html?1983 Pubdate: Tue, 29 Feb 2000
Source: Newsday (NY) Author: Associated Press
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Comment #4 posted by DdC on October 06, 2002 at 18:35:37 PT
This is Good re-News...Let's Not Let Them Bury It!
If it ever hits a U.S. media outlet, that is...Although final results will not be available until next summer, researchers are optimistic...Webster's Dictionary 1952Bhang-(bang). n [Hind.from Sans.. bhanga,hemp] 
An Indian variety of the common hemp, the resin of which is highly narcotic and intoxicant, and a popular Oriental stimulant, otherwise called hashish. Also employed in medicine, for its anodyne,hyponotic, and anti-spasmodic qualities; also spelled bang, beng.Cannabis Shrinks Tumors: Government Knew in 74    
http://pub3.ezboard.com/fendingcannabisprohibitionwhyitstimetolegalize.showMessage?topicID=116.topicWhat the WHO doesn't want you to know about cannabis 
http://pub3.ezboard.com/fendingcannabisprohibitionwhyitstimetolegalize.showMessage?topicID=261.topicD.E.A. Confirms Grounds To Remove Cannabis from Sch#1 
http://pub3.ezboard.com/fendingcannabisprohibitionwhyitstimetolegalize.showMessage?topicID=253.topicDrug Czar Manipulating Data in a Report to Congress
http://www.ariannaonline.com/discus/messages/4/920.html?FridayNovember1720001020am  FDA rebirth Thalidomide (flipper babies) as an apetite stimulant instead of cannabis.
http://pub3.ezboard.com/fendingcannabisprohibitionstuff.showMessage?topicID=62.topicPresident Ronald Reagan, at the urging of then Vice President George Bush, appointed Carlton Turner as the White House Drug (czar) Advisor in 1981. At conventions (1981-1986) of pharmaceutical companies and their lobbyist the American Chemical Manufacturers, Turner promised to continue the research ban on the 400 chemical compounds of cannabis. Bush managed to continue to direct this effort, simply by not allowing any grants for private or public research with a positive implication to be issued by NIDA or NIH, or approved any recent FDA applications unless they pursued negative results. As of this writing (July 1998) President Clinton's policy has remained the same. The Ultimate Hypocrasy
http://www.jackherer.com/book/ch14.htmlRayguns Monkey Test
http://pub3.ezboard.com/fendingcannabisprohibitionwhyitstimetolegalize.showMessage?topicID=50.topicThe Toxic Alternative to Natural Fiber
http://fornits.com/curiosity/hemp/fibre.htm
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Comment #3 posted by FoM on October 06, 2002 at 17:36:38 PT
Oops
I'm wrong an under the tongue spray isn't an inhaler I don't think. Just wanted to correct what I said.
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Comment #2 posted by FoM on October 06, 2002 at 17:33:03 PT
This is Good News
pokesmotter I agree it is important. This shows the versatility of the cannabis plant. What else will cannabis help? We don't know yet. I believe as Dr. Russo said the goodies are still there. Without the goodies it couldn't possibly work right. That's so much a part of how cannabis makes a person feel better that it must be a part of medical use or at least I think and hope so. An inhaler would be great for a non smoker or a person who isn't able to smoke for any reason.
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Comment #1 posted by pokesmotter on October 06, 2002 at 17:16:25 PT:
heck yeah
good for Britain! Prove to the world the medical qualities of cannabis! i have a strange feeling this particular news won't attract the media attention it deserves. oh well. i know about it.
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