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Pueblo Resident Does Marijuana Patch Research
Posted by FoM on January 24, 2000 at 13:02:30 PT
By The Associated Press
Source: Tribe.com
A former Pueblo resident who now works as a researcher is concentrating on a three-year research project checking out whether those patches used by people who are quitting smoking also could give cancer patients a dose of the active ingredients in marijuana."This is a new area," said Audra Stinchcomb, who is working at the Albany College of Pharmacy in Albany, N.Y., on a grant from the American Cancer Society. "They haven't funded things like this before. We're trying to determine the feasibility of making a transdermal cannabinoid patch similar to the nicotine patch."
Marijuana's inhibiting effects on nausea, vomiting and lack of appetite in cancer patients are well recognized, Ms. Stinchcomb said recently, but how widespread its medical benefits are won't be known until reliable dosage forms are devised."People are trying different routes of delivery. Society doesn't like delivery by smoking. Besides, smoking isn't healthy and it's not convenient anymore," she said. Other potential methods include inhalers and nasal sprays.But she said a patch "could be painless to apply and convenient to use, especially since one patch may be able to deliver the drug for several days," she said.In the experiments, the marijuana derivative is put in a solution on top of the skin to see how quickly it goes through."It has to be fast enough that a therapeutic level of the drug is obtained in the body," she said. "We also want to know whether or not the drugs break down in the skin into active or inactive substances."Besides its uses for cancer patients, marijuana might aid in the treatment of glaucoma and multiple sclerosis, she said.She is a 1984 graduate of South High School in Pueblo and the daughter of Puebloans Don and Carol Stinchcomb.PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) Published: January 24, 2000Copyright © trib.com 2000Related Article & Web Site:The IOM Reporthttp://books.nap.edu/html/marimed/Marijuana Patch Research For Cancer Patients - 1/19/2000http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread4385.shtml Researchers Test Marijuana Patch - 1/20/2000http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread4395.shtml
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