Choc bar drugs pair will appeal

Re: Choc bar drugs pair will appeal

On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 14:29:51 +0000, mike carley wrote:

>
> "Phil Stovell" <phil@stovell.org.uk> wrote in message
> news:pan.2006.12.17.14.19.32.273327@stovell.org.uk...
>> On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 14:07:44 +0000, mike carley wrote:
>>
>>
>>> "Phil Stovell" <phil@stovell.org.uk> wrote in message
>>> news:pan.2006.12.17.10.48.31.742362@stovell.org.uk...
>>>> < http :// icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/sundaysun/news/tm_headline=choc-bar-drugs-pair-will-appeal&method=full&objectid=18277069&siteid=50081-name_page.html>
>>>>
>>>> Choc bar drugs pair will appeal
>>>>
>>>> Dec 17 2006
>>>>
>>>> By Robert Weatherall, The Sunday Sun
>>>>
>>>> A disabled woman found guilty of supplying drugs to fellow multiple
>>>> sclerosis sufferers said she will appeal against her conviction.
>>>>
>>>> Lezley Gibson has not given up her fight to legally supply thousands
>>>> of MS sufferers with the class-C drug, which she and other campaigners
>>>> claim is the only effective treatment to alleviate the debilitating
>>>> condition.
>>>
>>> In that case why isn't it available on the NHS yet?
>>
>> They changed the rules when this case started. Sativex can now be
>> prescribed on a named-patient basis.
>>
>> Basically, they're frightened to approve it, as it will go against the
>> all drugs are evil (except booze and cigs) dogma.
>>
>> --
>
> How did they get painkillers and antidepressants pass the legislations
> then?

I expect they don't have unwanted side effects - pleasure.

--
Phil Stovell, South Hampshire, UK

"They said I should not take him to the police, but rather
let him pay a dowry for my goat because he used it as his wife"

Re: Choc bar drugs pair will appeal


"Phil Stovell" <phil@stovell.org.uk> wrote in message
news:pan.2006.12.17.14.36.56.569852@stovell.org.uk...
> On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 14:29:51 +0000, mike carley wrote:
>
>>
>> "Phil Stovell" <phil@stovell.org.uk> wrote in message
>> news:pan.2006.12.17.14.19.32.273327@stovell.org.uk...
>>> On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 14:07:44 +0000, mike carley wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> "Phil Stovell" <phil@stovell.org.uk> wrote in message
>>>> news:pan.2006.12.17.10.48.31.742362@stovell.org.uk...
>>>>> < http :// icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/sundaysun/news/tm_headline=choc-bar-drugs-pair-will-appeal&method=full&objectid=18277069&siteid=50081-name_page.html>
>>>>>
>>>>> Choc bar drugs pair will appeal
>>>>>
>>>>> Dec 17 2006
>>>>>
>>>>> By Robert Weatherall, The Sunday Sun
>>>>>
>>>>> A disabled woman found guilty of supplying drugs to fellow multiple
>>>>> sclerosis sufferers said she will appeal against her conviction.
>>>>>
>>>>> Lezley Gibson has not given up her fight to legally supply thousands
>>>>> of MS sufferers with the class-C drug, which she and other campaigners
>>>>> claim is the only effective treatment to alleviate the debilitating
>>>>> condition.
>>>>
>>>> In that case why isn't it available on the NHS yet?
>>>
>>> They changed the rules when this case started. Sativex can now be
>>> prescribed on a named-patient basis.
>>>
>>> Basically, they're frightened to approve it, as it will go against the
>>> all drugs are evil (except booze and cigs) dogma.
>>>
>>> --
>>
>> How did they get painkillers and antidepressants pass the legislations
>> then?
>
> I expect they don't have unwanted side effects - pleasure.
>
> --

You cannot be serious.

Re: Choc bar drugs pair will appeal

On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 14:35:02 GMT, "mike carley"
<tess.stickles@privates.mi> wrote:


>>> How did they get painkillers and antidepressants pass the legislations
>>> then?

>> I expect they don't have unwanted side effects - pleasure.

> You cannot be serious.

One of the biggest obstacles to cannabis as a medicine is that it
gives its users a pleasant high. Scientists have been working for
years to try to separate the medicinal effects of cannabis from the
pleasant psychological ones, so far without much success.

GW Pharmaceuticals, the British developer and manufacturer of cannabis
based medicines, has developed and patented a way around this problem,
the Advanced Dispensing System (ADS). This allows dosage to be closely
monitored so that a therapeutic dose can still be delivered with
minimal 'high' thus reducing the risk of patients over using cannabis
for pleasure purposes:

www .gwpharm,com /research_ads_intro.asp

This is a great British invention with great potential, but the
government still will not licence it in the UK.

We can't have evil marijuana gaining a 'good' reputation, can we?

Clough

Re: Choc bar drugs pair will appeal

On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 14:29:51 GMT, "mike carley"
<tess.stickles@privates.mi> wrote:

>>> In that case why isn't it available on the NHS yet?

>> They changed the rules when this case started. Sativex can now be
>> prescribed on a named-patient basis.

>> Basically, they're frightened to approve it, as it will go against the all
>> drugs are evil (except booze and cigs) dogma.

> How did they get painkillers and antidepressants
> pass the legislations then?

They don't carry the stigma and emotional baggage of the evil weed.

Clough

Re: Choc bar drugs pair will appeal

On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 14:07:44 GMT, "mike carley"
<tess.stickles@privates.mi> wrote:

>
>"Phil Stovell" <phil@stovell.org.uk> wrote in message
>news:pan.2006.12.17.10.48.31.742362@stovell.org.uk...
>> < http :// icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/sundaysun/news/tm_headline=choc-bar-drugs-pair-will-appeal&method=full&objectid=18277069&siteid=50081-name_page.html>
>>
>> Choc bar drugs pair will appeal
>>
>> Dec 17 2006
>>
>> By Robert Weatherall, The Sunday Sun
>>
>> A disabled woman found guilty of supplying drugs to fellow multiple
>> sclerosis sufferers said she will appeal against her conviction.
>>
>> Lezley Gibson has not given up her fight to legally supply thousands of MS
>> sufferers with the class-C drug, which she and other campaigners claim is
>> the only effective treatment to alleviate the debilitating condition.

> In that case why isn't it available on the NHS yet?

Because it is Drugs and the government are scared out of their minds
of appearing Soft On Drugs, even by allowing medicinal cannabis to be
prescribed.

A cannabis based medicine has been developed by a British company, GW
Pharmaceutical, but the government refuses to license it in the UK.

The Canadian government has licenced it and it is has been available
to patients in Canada for 18 months:

www .gwpharm,com /

The Cannabis chocolate venture in the UK was a way for sufferers to
gain access to a reliable and uncontaminated supply, as black market
cannabis is often cut with all kinds of unknown and potentially
dangerous substances, and without coming into contact with organised
crime.

Clough