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Cannabis Medicine Seen Ready in Three Years
Posted by FoM on November 17, 1999 at 08:57:29 PT
The Associated Press
Source: Fox News
A British drug company says it hopes to have a cannabis-based medicine ready to be prescribed by doctors within three or four years. 
Sufferers from diseases such as multiple sclerosis, which attacks the central nervous system, have been calling for a pain-relieving cannabis medicine for years and many have broken the law by buying the drug from street dealers. GW Pharmaceuticals said Tuesday it was making progress in clinical studies with cannabis-based medicines. A small group of volunteers had been taking cannabis under clinical conditions in order to determine the best dose. Some had taken cannabis lozenges which dissolve under the tongue while others used an inhaler. Although the plants are the same as those grown for recreational use — cannabis sativa — the trials are designed to maximize the drug's analgesic, or pain relieving, effect rather than to make subjects so high that they do not care about the pain. comments newsdigital.com© 1999, News America Digital Publishing, Inc. Related Articles:Health: Cannabis Trials 'Encouraging' - 11/16/99http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread3683.shtmlMedicinal Cannabis Grower Acquitted - 7/22/99http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread2157.shtml
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Comment #1 posted by lookinside on November 17, 1999 at 11:17:14 PT:
yay!
i applaud the drug companies efforts..all research is good...this plant WORKS...but it has so many active ingredients...no one knows which works on what...
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