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Canada Quietly Looks at Testing Marijuana Inhaler!
Posted by FoM on June 03, 1999 at 16:55:34 PT
By Luke McCann & reported on June 3rd!
Source: Globe & Mail
TORONTOCanada is quietly investigating the possibility of testing a marijuana inhaler being developed by a British company that would help ease the pain of suffering patients but stop short of making them high.
Britain's GW Pharmaceuticals has been testing vaporised marijuana, heated and inhaled through a nebulizer -- similar to the inhalers used by asthma sufferers -- to relieve pain in chronically ill patients. ``Certainly we are looking at what is going on in the international community,'' Bonnie Fox-McCintyre, spokeswoman for Canada's health minister, told Reuters. ``But I think it would be too fine a point to say we're already negotiating.'' Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper reported on Thursday. that the government has begun talks with the company to test the product in its own clinical trials. In March, Health Minister Allan Rock ordered clinical trials for the medical use of marijuana and to determine how to grant safe access to the drug. Last week, Rock expressed a preference for growing a supply of the drug in Canada. If the trials prove marijuana helps relieve pain, the government is expected to allow its use. ``It's not that there's some strange marijuana somewhere that doesn't have a psychoactive effect,'' Mark Rogerson, spokesman for GW Pharmaceuticals, told Reuters from London on Thursday. ``It's just that the dosage required to relieve the pain would be much less than what is required to make you high,.'' ``I've seen reports that (the Canadian government) has invited us to negotiations, but I can't comment on that,'' Rogerson said. The drug's painkilling capabilities are believed to prevent epileptic seizures, and relieve pain for multiple sclerosis and cancer patients. ``There's about 4,000 years, give or take, of anecdotal evidence,'' Rogerson said. The company is trying to deliver the drug through an inhaler to avoid the harmful action of smoking and hopes to have a product on the market within five years. Tests have already been conducted on healthy volunteers and, within two weeks, trials in Britain will begin on multiple sclerosis patients. GW Pharmaceuticals clones marijuana in a greenhouse to ensure a secure a constant supply of the drug, something Canada has considered. 
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Comment #6 posted by joe burns on May 07, 2000 at 23:11:31 PT:
question for everybody?>
if some 1 can answer this i will very appreciative.....how long does it take 4 marijuana to not show up on a urine test....?  i have permanently quit for EXACTLY 1 month today...and i have been drinking lots of water.......so how long does it take to go away and in ur peoples opinion...will i pass>? ....if weight is an issue i weigh 165lbsthank uconcerned individual
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Comment #5 posted by Justin Ricard on October 18, 1999 at 06:59:48 PT:
?'s concerning the use of marijuana in a hospital 
I am a nursing student in Canada. My group and I are doing a research paper concerning the use of marijuana in a hospital setting. We would like to know how the general population feels about the hospitals endorsing the use of marijuana.We would also like information on the long term effects of marijuana and the ethical immplications of the use...Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to give us!!!
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Comment #4 posted by cutter on July 05, 1999 at 17:32:27 PT:
pain
my 21 year old daughter is suffering from advanced stsges of cancer (ewing's sarcoma) and it is devestating to have to sit back and observe her writhing in pain. as the dosage of morphine increases, so too does her ability to recognize the world around her. an infrequent user of cannabis over the years, i have always wondered the mental thought process behind the peerson who is afraid that a person who is living his/her last few weeks of life may become addicted. FINALLY, reason is prevailing.
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Comment #3 posted by Pat on June 04, 1999 at 19:13:57 PT
You guys are correct....
Hi guys,thanks for your comments. It's a very well-known medical fact, that if you are happy, your immune system functions the best it can. Contrariwise, if you're sad, down, depressed, in pain, etc., than your immune system will also be depressed, too.Btw, depressed people have more "heart attacks", and, I think, more cancers (I read this ~somewhere...), than happy folks do. [One "heart doc" interviewed lots of folks who had heart attacks, -relatively shortly after their attacks- and he asked them "what caused their heart attack.?" Most responded that they had their heart attack, because of a bad personal, family situation or fight, which caused them to be very depressed.]Thanks.
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Comment #2 posted by FoM on June 04, 1999 at 06:25:55 PT
That's True!
That's what I think too! If you take the quieting effect and slightly mood elevating effect out of marijuana how could that help? I believe being in a good mood helps people get better as much as any good medicine can fight a disease, so it seems self defeating to me too!PS: I understand the development of a smokeless inhaler for people who have advanced lung disease but that's about all that could use it but taking the mood altering effects out just won't work as well in my opinion!
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Comment #1 posted by Rolley Skeeb on June 04, 1999 at 05:40:15 PT:
Pyscho effects are what help relieve pain.
In my opinion the Pyschoactive effect in which the THC provides is what help relieve pain.. To try and make something that eliminates that is pointless, and no fun anyways ;-) .
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