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socrateez
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 Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 9:26 am Post subject: Sativex |
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Seen this referred to in my Neuropathy post and thought it deserved extra attention.
From Wiki:
| Quote: | Sativex is an oromucosal (mouth) spray developed by the UK company GW Pharmaceuticals for multiple sclerosis patients, who can use it to alleviate neuropathic pain and spasticity. Sativex is distinct from all other pharmaceutically produced cannabinoids currently available because it is derived from botanical material, rather than a solely synthetic process. Sativex is a pharmaceutical product standardised in composition, formulation, and dose. Its principal active cannabinoid components are the cannabinoids: tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD). The product is formulated as an oromucosal spray which is administered by spraying into the mouth. Each spray of Sativex delivers a fixed dose of 2.7mg THC and 2.5mg CBD.
Approved by Health Canada under a licence with conditions (NOC/c) for prescription use in April 2005, Sativex is the world's first artificial pharmaceutical prescription medicine derived from the cannabis plant. |
Where do I get mine?!?
Here is the manufacturers site with .PDF files for patients and doctors!
http://www.bayerhealth.ca/display.cfm?http://www.bayerhealth.ca/display.cfm?Object_ID=272&Article_ID=56&expandMenu_ID=53&prevSubItem=4_52
And also worth noting is this page on the same site regarding U.S. phase III trials and "marijuana" issues:
http://www.gwpharm.com/states.asp
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Has GW been involved in the US debate about “medical marijuana”?
GW is aware that there is a broader debate in the US and elsewhere relating to the use of crude herbal cannabis (often called marijuana) for medical and/or non-medical purposes. This sometimes-fierce discourse is overlain with political issues and has largely taken place outside the field of science. Since we are a pharmaceutical company, GW has quite appropriately taken no part in that political controversy. We have simply tried to proceed with the important work of developing the scientific data necessary to enable us to improve the plight of patients with serious unmet needs.
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What is GW's position on crude herbal cannabis?
GW has never endorsed or supported the idea of distributing or legalizing crude herbal cannabis for medical use. In both our publications and presentations, we have consistently maintained that only a cannabinoid medication--one that is standardized in composition, formulation, and dose, administered by means of an appropriate delivery system, and tested in properly controlled preclinical and clinical studies--can meet the standards of regulatory authorities around the world, including those of the FDA. These criteria are also mandatory if the modern medical model—informed patients working with, and being advised by, knowledgeable physicians to identify appropriate treatment options--is ever to be attained with a cannabinoid medication.
We have also repeatedly stressed that these regulatory processes provide important protections for patients, and we believe that any cannabinoid medication must be subjected to, and satisfy, such rigorous scrutiny.
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Certain cannabis advocacy groups have claimed that Sativex® is just “liquid marijuana”. Why does GW disagree with this view?
Sativex® is not "liquid marijuana." Sativex® is a pharmaceutical product standardized in composition, formulation, and dose, administered by means of an appropriate delivery system, which has been, and continues to be, tested in properly controlled preclinical and clinical studies. Crude herbal cannabis in any form--including a crude extract or tincture-- is none of those things. Such tinctures and extracts are unstandardized in quality, content, and dose and therefore are uncertain in effect. |
I find hope in this. |
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Brute4291
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| Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:32 am Post subject: |
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| you could compare that spray with a vaporizer. They are both "safe" delivery methods |
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psykl0n
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 5:03 am Post subject: |
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| They should make spray from coca leaves. |
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