cannabisnews.com: What is the UK Medicinal Cannabis Project? What is the UK Medicinal Cannabis Project? Posted by FoM on February 06, 2000 at 13:34:35 PT New Medicinal Cannabis Web Site! Source: Medicinal-Cannabis.org The Project is a group of organisations and individuals committed to the development of non-smoked prescription cannabis-based medicines for treating a wide variety of conditions with a view to making these medicines available to patients as soon as possible. All research and development being carried out as part of the Project is performed under government licences and in co-operation with appropriate branches of government. The Project is conducting research according to standards required by regulatory authorities such as the Medicines Control Agency in the United Kingdom and the Food and Drug Administration in the United States. The aim of this research is to obtain approvals from regulatory authorities around the world so that patients suffering from a range of medical conditions can receive non-smoked cannabis-based medicines on prescription from their doctor. Why Is Medicinal Cannabis Research Needed? Evidence strongly suggests cannabis-based medicines will help relieve a wide range of symptoms resulting from a variety of medical conditions. Anyone suffering from severe and often chronic pain, muscle spasm, incontinence, nausea, insomnia, depression and many other conditions could all explain to you why this research is needed. A large number of patients have already written us moving letters about their illness and many have reported how cannabis enables them to cope with their illness when all other medicines have failed. One example of a group of patients desperately in need of cannabis-based medicines are Multiple Sclerosis patients, for many of whom there is no effective treatment to control their pain, spasm, incontinence and other symptoms. These patients suffer from the reduction in both mobility and independence which usually accompanies the progression of this and other severe diseases. Cannabis-based medicines could bring significant relief to MS sufferers and bring a huge improvement in quality of life. MS patients and those with other spasticity disorders are just some of those patient groups these medicines are expected to help. Other groups include AIDS sufferers, patients with arthritis, spinal cord injury, epilepsy and other seizure disorders, glaucoma, as well as those suffering from cancer and other terminal or debilitating medical conditions characterized by intractable pain. Newshawk: Pat Whelan© 2000 UK Medicinal Cannabis Project. Click the link to visit:UK Medicinal Cannabis Projecthttp://www.medicinal-cannabis.org/CannabisNews Search of UK News Articles:http://www.alltheweb.com/cgi-bin/asearch?type=all&query=cannabisnews+UK Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #8 posted by FoM on February 06, 2000 at 16:48:48 PT I Understand Thanks kaptinemo,I understand what you were saying. I don't go to any doctor nor use any medicine. I have been made sick by doctors and drugs and my son fought us tooth and nail about getting on protease inhibitors years ago and he said why. He said Mom I have watched all my friends, one by one, get on AIDS drugs and then they die. He refused treatment and maybe it did shorten his life but I watched him wretch and wretch when he tried to take the drugs. I use herbs and I just had a serious abcessed tooth and some people as sick as I became would have gone and gotten a script but I didn't and I am better now and not sick from those darn chemicals. I live on herbs and all in all have never felt healthier even though I do feel older. Thanks kaptinemo!Peace, FoM! [ Post Comment ] Comment #7 posted by kaptinemo on February 06, 2000 at 16:35:13 PT Sorry for the misunderstanding Apparently some misunderstandings have developed from my earlier comments.I am not suggesting in any way that the people involved in this attempt to create non-smokable cannabis are themselves originators of the de facto conspiracy I outlined below.However, the fact remains that government bodies are using this matter of a supposed 'health concern' (the deleterious effects of smoking) for those whom they previously would happily have consigned to their graves (via refusing to allow the use of *any* cannabis products at all). Now, these same forces, that previously said cannabis had no medicinal value, are trying to 'corner the market' by directing research in a way that will ultimately benefit corporations at the expense of the average citizen. This is what I find so objectionable.Whether someone pokes you in the butt with a cattle prod or simply closes off any door but the one they want you to use, the result is the same. Your choices are being circumscribed. Desperately sick people should have more choices than a venal and corrupt government (whose lies about cannabis have been documented voluminously before, and therefore deserves no respect) will allow them. [ Post Comment ] Comment #6 posted by FoM on February 06, 2000 at 16:09:33 PT Now I understand! Thanks Richard, Now I understand. I want to see Cannabis researched. I also want it decriminalized. I don't care which one comes first just so that it ultimately happens and I sure hope soon! This gets tiring arguing over a plant's legality that should have never been made illegal. I still don't understand why they haven't had to make it a Schedule II drug since it has medicinal properties. Rescheduling marijuana could help a lot of people that are behind bars I think. [ Post Comment ] Comment #5 posted by Richard Lake on February 06, 2000 at 15:56:51 PT: What I mean. These folks are honestly trying to work within the system to get relief to medical marijuana patients. Their motive is not profit - their motive is helping those in need.Yes, it is nice to want marijuana to simply be legal for us to grow and use, patients or not. But there are still folks in great need while we work towards making that happen.These folks are simply trying to help those in need now. [ Post Comment ] Comment #4 posted by FoM on February 06, 2000 at 15:46:14 PT Thanks Richard Hi Richard,I guess I don't quite understand what you mean so I can't comment but thanks for the comment though.Peace, FoM! [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by Richard Lake on February 06, 2000 at 15:27:30 PT: Sorry, Pat, this IS NOT a prohibition sham! Nobody on both sides of the Atlantic who has been workingwith these members of the House of Lords, including MAP/Drugsnse, thinks they are anything but what they appear to be. This is an honest and constructive effort to make medical marijuana available to patients.Richard LakeSr. Editor; MAPnews, MAPnews-Digest and DrugNews-DigestMore than 32,132 Drug-Related News Clippingsin a powerful new SEARCHABLE database!http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/Quick sign up for DrugNews-Digest, Focus Alerts or Weekly:http://www.DrugSense.org/hurry.htmVisit the virtual domains in the DrugSense family:http://cannabisnews.com/http://csdp.org/http://drugsense.org/http://familywatch.org/http://mapinc.org/http://november.org/http://pdfa.org/http://pdxnorml.org/ Announcement of site from the DrugSense Weekly [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by FoM on February 06, 2000 at 14:59:05 PT My Thoughts Hi kaptinemo,I have mixed feelings on this project too. I believe we need to have a non smoked form of Cannabis for those who can't smoke. If a person needs pain relief from say cancer of the lungs you wouldn't want that person to have to deal with smoking and maybe coughing. I also want to see them develop the intravenous use of the correct cannabanoids for head trauma victims. What I really mind is they are trying to take the high out and that is the best parts of cannabis and it makes a person feel better so if you take the high out how will it help anyone? Why can't we be a little high without the whole planet going into orbit? What a world we live in!New Cannabis Won't Have Highhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread4100.shtmlPeace, FoM! [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by kaptinemo on February 06, 2000 at 14:21:28 PT A Noble Effort... Or another Prohib Sham? I'm sure I'm not the only person seeing this pattern emerging.Here in the US the prohibitionist forces are fighting a delaying tactic. Previously, because of their Catch-22 stranglehold on research (We are the only ones who can do the research, but we won't because we have already determined that marijuana has no medical value, so why research it?)they were able to lie through their teeth and get away with it. But ever since the lawsuit that forced McCaffrey to put up or shut up on MMJ, and the IoM report that blasted all his cherished lies to bits, a two pronged approach has been adopted by the 'antis' (as I call them).They now continually carp about the 'dubious value' of smoked medicine, blathering on about its harm to the user. (Ask some chemo patient miserably barfing his or her guts out and in desperate need of relief RIGHT NOW if mild bronchial irritation is a concern) while at the same time they are hurriedly seeking ways of introducing the drug by inhalation or transdermally. Why? Because they know time is running out. Time for their buddies in pharmaceutical companies (whom our bureaucrats someday hope to garner cushy jobs and fat salaries from courtesy of the Good Ol' Revolving door between Corporate America and the Federal government) before enough everyday people realize they've been had about cannabis all along, and demand that the raw drug be made avaialble.Make no mistake; the profits that can be expected from the successful corporatizing of cannabis-based medicines are astronomical. The cancer industry alone will see an overnight economic boom rivalling Apple Computer when it brought out the first affordable personal computers. This is why they are expending so much effort in trying to propagandize the American people - and now the people of the UK - into accepting what is essentially a re-invention of the wheel. We all know that legal marijuana would be dirt cheap and anyone could grow it almost anywhere. Corporate forces are hard at work to prevent that alternative, forcing you you buy their products.And they will succeed... unless people like us let our elected officials know that *we* know about this end-run being played at the expense of our health and our wallets, and we won't stand for it.It's up to you. You can 'bend over'. Or you can stand up. [ Post Comment ] Post Comment Name: Optional Password: E-Mail: Subject: Comment: [Please refrain from using profanity in your message] Link URL: Link Title: