cannabisnews.com: Cannabis Trials Get Go-Ahead Cannabis Trials Get Go-Ahead Posted by FoM on April 06, 2000 at 12:40:56 PT From the Press Association Source: News Unlimited Britain's drug regulatory authority has given the go-ahead for the first full-scale patient trials of therapeutic cannabis products. The Phase Two trials will involve patients suffering from multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, severe pain and spasticity. GW Pharmaceuticals, which has a Home Office licence to use cannabis in medical research, was given permission for the trials by the Medicines Control Agency. The company said the trials, taking place at a number of locations, would commence "in the near future" and recruit some 2,000 patients over the next two to three years. The first trial will be led by Dr Willy Notcutt at the Pain Relief Clinic at the James Paget Hospital, Great Yarmouth. Dr Notcutt said: "Our aim is to test some of the claims which have been made for the medicinal qualities of cannabis in a structured clinical research programme. "This is an exciting moment, and we hope very much that our findings will lead to significant improvements in the pain relief available for sufferers of MS and other debilitating conditions." Patients will take different formulations of compounds derived from cannabis using an under-the-tongue spray. The aim of the programme is to develop cannabis-based prescription medicines which could be on sale as early as 2003. Published: April 6, 2000Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2000Health: Cannabis Trials 'Encouraging' http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread3683.shtmlCannabis Medicine Seen Ready in Three Years http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread3699.shtmlCannabisNews Articles On GW Pharmaceuticals:http://ussc.alltheweb.com/cgi-bin/search?type=all&query=cannabisnews+GW+Pharmaceuticals Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #2 posted by rainbow on April 06, 2000 at 14:33:20 PT Picture I saw this article at the BBC website. I thought it strange because of the picture of a "scientist" in and amongst many MJ plants.What seemed strange was the look of the plants. It appear the guy was in the middle of a Hemp garden not medical marijuana garden. Maybe I am wrong but I thought that buds were the key not long spindly stalks with very few leafs and all bunched close together.I hope they can measure the THC dosage.CheersRainbow [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by Freedom on April 06, 2000 at 12:56:08 PT That's nice. And, for three years, patients will continue to be jailed.And, prohibitionists hope forever, those who receive more complete relief from whole cannabis will continue to be tried and jailed after these more expensive and most probably inferior pharmeceuticals are introduced.I just loved it when our government sang the praises of downgrading Marinol from Schedule II to Schedule III. As if that makes a real difference in the lives of those who rely on MMJ for paliative relief.Prohibitionists are frauds. And, they continue to block research on whole cannabis, because they fear what they know is the truth - that they have denied and suppressed a beneficial medicine for decades, and are directly responsible for untold suffering. The day of reckoning is coming, when the truth will be known to all, and they will be seen for what they are. [ Post Comment ] Post Comment Name: Optional Password: E-Mail: Subject: Comment: [Please refrain from using profanity in your message] Link URL: Link Title: