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The ideological, illogical war against cannabis : Comments

By Sandra Kanck, published 1/8/2008

Bit by bit the demand for medical marijuana is growing and, bit by bit, the medical efficacy of this drug is being recognised.

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You’re quite right, Examinator, that there already are pills based on THC. The brand name is Namisol, which contains 1.5 mg THC (dronabinol USP).
But Namisol is not available outside the Netherlands where they’re manufactured.
http://www.echo-pharma.com/namisol.htm
If there are other tablets elsewhere available on doctors prescription I don’t know about these.

You need not to be fearful about slippery-slope arguments. Cannabis has been available in Holland for decades. Nothing happened. The cannabis usage is lower than in almost all other Western countries. Heroin has been available to addicts on prescription as well, which resulted in a significant reduction in heroin users- in fact they have the lowest percentage of heroin addicts in the world.

Oi!! Hands off my one and only glass of daily red wine :)
I enjoy that and am not willing to sacrifice that –call me selfish- just because others abuse alcohol. I bother nobody when I drink a glass of wine with my dinner. If my community doesn’t like it they can all move elsewhere.

But I don’t mind my tax being spend on drug education, anti-drug campaigns, health programs.
Posted by Celivia, Friday, 1 August 2008 8:12:30 PM
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Celivia

Thanks for the link. I checked and noted the following:

<<<<<<Namisol® is the first sublingual tablet containing dronabinol USP (ultrapure THC), which has been developed using our unique formulation technology.

Namisol® is indicated for the treatment of different diseases symptoms such as:

- Spasticity with pain, for instance from Multiple Sclerosis and spinal cord injury
- Nausea and vomiting by chemotherapy, radiotherapy or treatment with HIV-medication
- Chronic neuralgic pain
- Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome
- Palliative treatment of cancer and HIV/AIDS

Namisol® posseses several unique characteristics compared to existing products. Namisol® offers superior stability, unproblematic administration, is more robust and is cheaper to produce.>>>>>

As a sufferer of chronic pain, which can only be treated with chemicals that have side effects such as gastric ulcers and constipation, I (and many like me) would support a rational approach to medicinal cannabis. For far too long cannabis has been deliberately maligned to protect the interests of companies whose products would not be able to compete.

It is similar to the campaign against renewable energy and before that the lies put out by tobacco companies. Where-ever multinational corporations are threatened we are fed lies and disinformation.

Apart from medicinal treatments, cannabis also provides oils, paper and fabric. It is easy to grow and has a faster production rate.

Check the following government publication for yet another example of what might have been but never eventuated:

http://www.rirdc.gov.au/pub/media_releases/15nov95.html
Posted by Fractelle, Saturday, 2 August 2008 9:00:13 AM
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Quite so CELIVIA I too like my home brewed beer (too my taste no preservatives). Red wine tends to have too much Sulphur dioxide preservative perhaps a consequence of too much at executive (business) lunches etc.

By the way your taxes wouldn’t pay for much it’s the limited amount ($) we as are prepared to spend in pre-emption and treatment. (no where near enough).

My concern is that the amount of damage in the wider community wives, children even some husbands and even potentially you and I beaten because by those who abuse booze (drugs etc). Incest, rape, car deaths and innocent bystanders etc it is far more pervasive than can be fixed by education, needle exchange or even drug rehab centres.

For every reasonable user there are dozens of abusers.
If booze was solely a backyard activity I would postulate that much of our community’s problems would evaporate.
Research I’ve seen suggests that the more EFFORT required to acquire the recreation the less attractive it becomes as opposed to taxes etc.

Governments are inclined favour Corporate wants and voter selfishness (votes) over the logic that if we could reduce the need for perhaps 20% of our health expenses they could provide more important benefits.

I would also suggest that ‘primitive (?)’ societies mind altering substances are less of a problem…ritual use (controlled).
I was suggesting that recreational drugs are just that, hardly essential.

My reasoning is largely self preservation if we want a better society with less hoons less B/E and street crime then we need among other things less mind altering substances.
I've also seen something about trials of THC drugs in the US too.
Posted by examinator, Saturday, 2 August 2008 9:45:58 AM
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Anyone claiming that Cannabis is harmless is on it. Only the other day we discussed it in the Pub with several "smokers" who told us we didn't know what we were talking about. It turned out to be a classic example of what this stuff does do to users. Within an hour two users were just blotto whereas those of us (veteran beer appreciators) on a few beers still communicated & walked straight. One chap who had two smokes in one hour couldn't even remember where he'd left his shopping bags.
Medicinal properties ? Well, yes ! But so have venom & alcohol.
It's really a matter of mentality, just like drinking. Where I grew it was never "let's go out and get p....d". We went out to socialise & slowly got under the influence. What's the difference ? As we got older we could handle the stuff, that's the difference.
Posted by individual, Saturday, 2 August 2008 11:30:50 AM
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Fractelle,
I too, find it very frustrating that a potentially profitable and environmentally-friendly hemp industry is given no change for as a superior alternative to many products.
It can even be used as a food source as it has more protein than soy. And for what reason is this excellent source banned? There simply is no rational argument against legalizing cannabis under regulations similar to those of alcohol, let alone legalizing it for medical purposes only.

Examinor,
*Here’s to you* - re brewing your own beer. At least you know what’s in it.
I’m aware of the Sulphur Dioxide in red wine, but I prefer to cherry-pick the anti-oxidants :) with the excuse that I enjoy wine, as well as very good health, am fit, and my BMI is 20.
Even though I strongly support legalising cannabis, I don't use it, but *I* want to be solely responsible for that choice.

There’s no logic for banning it and people should be free to choose what goes into their own body, especially when information is so freely available.
People have access to a large range of crap on the market including all legal drugs, transfats, so why ban some and not others.
It can be regulated, and taxing it can contribute to health care and drug education.
I’d like to see warnings on legally available and regulated cannabis, like we see on tobacco products if there’s conclusive evidence that x causes y if studies that link cannabis to psychotic problems would be conclusive- but there is no ultimate proof.
These studies are eagerly used by the anti-cannabis brigade, spread by the media, who fail to take the whole picture into account.

Violence,
Agreed that there’s a link between alcohol and violence and between certain drugs and violence, but cannabis isn’t one of them.
Cannabis is a relaxant; a peaceful drug, flower-power people used it.
There have been studies that indicate that cannabis may even reduce aggression and risk taking.
So as an aggression-causing drug, it would be more reasonable to ban alcohol than it is to ban cannabis.
Posted by Celivia, Saturday, 2 August 2008 5:44:14 PM
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Cannabis is a relaxant; a peaceful drug, flower-power people used it.
Yes, Celivia, and just of how much use were & are those flower-power people to the rest of us apart from having been mainly dole & bludgers & students of uselessness.
Posted by individual, Saturday, 2 August 2008 7:13:07 PM
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