Marijuana Mouth Spray Sativex May Hit Shelves By 2013

[Riftaxe]

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Seven countries including the UK, Spain and Germany have approved Sativex to treat patients with multiple sclerosis. Makers GW Pharmaceuticals hopes the drug will be used as a prescribed replacement to medical marijuana in the United States.

Patients take the drug by spraying it into their mouths like a breath spray with a dosage meter. This way, GW Pharmaceuticals says people can derive maximum benefit from the drug without feeling a “high.”

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Sativex contains pure amounts of delta 9-THC and cannabidiol – marijuana’s two best-known active ingredients and is the world’s first pharmaceutical drug made from grown marijuana rather than its synthetic equivalent. The drug is grown under computer-monitored conditions in secret greenhouses located in southern Britain.


Marijuana Mouth Spray Sativex May Hit Shelves By 2013

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Odds of this returning some honesty to the legalization debate?

[Logical]

1. Never used pot but thought THC made you high. Why would this not make you high?

[bemildred]

2. It does many things, dosage is everything.

Like most drugs.

[Kurmudgeon]

20. Will it make you fail an employment or child custody drug test?

[bemildred]

28. I would think so. nt

[Ecumenist]

3. My experience, (I'm use MMJ in California for Cancer), is what you use it for

I don't smoke at all, I take the pure THC capsules and I'm telling yu that if you're talking it for a disease like Cancer, you don't necessarily get high. It helps with pain and bestows peaceful pain free sleep. I can speak for other people but for me, it's not a matter of getting high....AT ALL.

[frylock]

7. are those the yak capsules that you use?

[Ecumenist]

8. I'm not sure what YAK capsules are but here in the northState, they're called Goldcaps

and red caps. Goldcaps look like vitamin e or fish oil caps. Red Caps are Hasish concentrate, I think they hadd Hash oil.

[mdmc]

9. is there any buzz at all

any euphoria?

[Ecumenist]

11. Yeah, there can be BUT it seems that is there's a disease process going on

along with pain, that "soaks up" the THC. The body uses it for pain and symptom control. in my experience.

[FarLeftFist]

14. What if I ate six?

[Ecumenist]

19. You will get REALLY sick, trust me.. The first time I took them, I wasn't aware

of how they work for someone like me and OMG, I got SO SICK...DIZZY at first and them I was violently ill for the better part of the might. DON'T.DO.IT!! I had NEVER use Marijuana before I got sick. DON'T.DO IT, please. It ain't fun at all.

[mdmc]

25. thanks for your replies

I have RA and live in NY.
I was wondering if these capsules might help me..

[backscatter712]

4. OH NO!!! We wouldn't want anyone to get HIGH would we?

Why the authoritarian scumfuck demographic in this country just couldn't handle the thought!

They couldn't stand the thought of someone actually taking pharmaceuticals for pleasure!

[Joe Shlabotnik]

6. or big pharma not getting their cut. n/t

[Riftaxe]

12. So medicinal usage bad

recreational good?

Kind of what i meant on restoring honesty to the debate.

If the medicinal applications can be provided without the high, it sort of displays those who use it recreationally without growing their own as sociopathic misanthropes.

Perhaps instead of fining and jailing them, order them to tour a few Mexican morgues so they can enjoy what they pay for.

[backscatter712]

15. Medicinal's fine by me.

And I'd rather have the recreational users get a "medical condition" and get their pot from an MMJ shop - at least where I live, the MMJ places grow their own instead of getting ditch weed from the Mexican gangsters...

And if it was all legal, the Mexican gangsters would be out of business and we wouldn't have so many corpses in Mexican morgues, would we?

It's the same problem that we faced when America had a dumbass attack, banned alcohol in the 20's and created business opportunities for such upstanding citizens as Al Capone...

[Riftaxe]

18. In the end I probably would support legalization

no matter how much it galls me to reward those without a conscience.

I suppose part of it is a morbid interest in what new hell they can bring upon other people with their quest for an ephemeral "high". Considering what they already support, it is sure to be even more gruesome.

As far as the crime going away, you should never discount the black market, people being people and all.

[Capitalocracy]

23. There are people who buy locally-produced or grow their own weed.

But chances are you're posting this on a computer assembled in a sweatshop or wearing clothes stitched by underage women forced to OD on birth control and working in a nation ruled by a military dictatorship installed to assure the unregulated working conditions and tax-free exports continue. Or perhaps you ate lunch today, featuring food harvested or butchered by desperate illegal immigrants earning less than the minimum wage. You have to accept that either we all have blood on our hands, or we just don't have that much control over some of the uglier aspects of the modern world economy.

[Riftaxe]

33. I specifically exempted those who

grow their own, reading for comprhension...it's not just for dope heads.

[Capitalocracy]

37. Ah, yes, implying that I'm too high...

to be able to read the point you didn't actually make in any post in this thread, while completely ignoring the point I made. Good job.

[Romulox]

31. You're not making any sense. YOUR support for the Drug Wars enables the cartels.

[Riftaxe]

34. Wait, the drug cartels grow larger

from my not giving them any money....

[Joe Shlabotnik]

16. I don't support a criminal racket,

a big pharma racket, or tax and grab racket for pot. (tax and grab adopted recently as a party platform for the Liberals here in Canada). Whether for medicinal or recreational use, I simply think it should be decriminalized so people could grow their own. But, I'm also not saying that their isn't a place for non-high pharmaceuticals, there should be freedom for both.

[Upton]

5. No thanks..I like getting high

my pipe and I are best friends..I'll continue to medicate myself. The drug warriors and all their misinformation can fuck off..

[Taverner]

10. +100000000000000000000000000000000

Drug warriors have no home here - or shouldn't

[Riftaxe]

13. I am pretty sure

that at least the pipe does not suffer from narcissim

[mitchtv]

17. I like getting high too

but I also like relief from my Parkinson's, I don't like to be smashed all day however. So I try balance it. I am getting quite adept

[Capitalocracy]

22. Coming from one who believes in both medicinal and recreational marijuana use...

I believe you should have the option of whether you feel like treating your symptoms without getting high, or getting high, depending on your particular mood on any particular day. So hopefully this product makes that a possibility for you... now we just have to get over this marijuana prohibition nonsense, and then everything will be gravy.

[mitchtv]

29. I do, I could use an non stoning dose

sometimes I need to drive. I would also like to try the new oral spray

[mitchtv]

30. I would also support an initiative to release ALL

Marijuana associated prisoners

[JesterCS]

21. same here. Love my pipe.

I smoke, yes recreationally, and partially because I have depression and severe social anxiety. I cant function in public sober =(

[theaocp]

24. Is cocaine still a Schedule 2 substance?

Just askin'...

[mwooldri]

27. Why, yes it is according to the DEA:

http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/schedules/

Along with Amphetamine (Adderall), Codeine (most often in a mix), Lisdexamfetamine (Vyvanse), Methylphenidate (Ritalin), Morphine, Opium (usually with something else) and Oxycodone (OxyContin) - which I list as drugs on the CII schedule that are often prescribed by physicians and psychiatrists.

[Romulox]

32. The taunting in the OP seems emblematic of the Drug Warriors' mentality. nt

[Riftaxe]

35. If asking for honesty is taunting

does not that make you inherently dishonest?

Since there was no taunting, just an observation that those who want a quick high are hiding behind medical marijuana (cowards and liars that they are), now that the "high" has been removed we can expect them to rush to support this new drug....

[Riftaxe]

36. Some people support slavery, mass murder

and horrific crimes so they can get high...some don't. Although if you need a "high" that badly, perhaps your life is so miserable you might reconsider it.