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Disco Cat
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Cannabis pill on horizon
#7930578 - 01/25/08 04:02 PM (16 years, 7 days ago) |
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Cannabis pill on horizon
Drug company Echo Pharmaceuticals expects to sell the world's first cannabis pill within five years, targeting a $5.85-billion global market, its chief executive said.
The privately held Dutch company faces competition from Canada's Cannasat, which is also developing a pill. In 2005, Canada became the first country in the world to approve a cannabis-based spray produced by Britain's GW Pharmaceuticals Plc as a treatment for multiple sclerosis patients.
U.S. regulators granted approval for a clinical trial for GW's under-the-tongue spray called Sativex, but the company said in July that European regulators had requested a further clinical study before approval.
Echo said it will start clinical studies and trials of its pill, to be marketed as Namisol, in the first half of 2008.
"The global cannabis-based drugs market could be worth ($6 billion)," Echo Pharmaceuticals chief executive Geert Woerlee told Reuters in an interview Wednesday. "As an early adopter, we could get 20 to 30 per cent market share."
He said studies showed that cannabis-based drugs may be effective for afflictions such as Parkinson's, MS and migraine and could also help patients with Alzheimer's.
The Netherlands has tolerated the sale of cannabis in coffee shops for decades and in 2003 became the world's first country to make it available as a prescription drug in pharmacies to treat chronic pain, nausea and loss of appetite in cancer, HIV and multiple sclerosis patients.
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rizingfire
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Re: Cannabis pill on horizon [Re: Disco Cat]
#7930585 - 01/25/08 04:04 PM (16 years, 7 days ago) |
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They already do don't they. Marinol is a liquid filled ball. A friend had cerebal palsy and something that eventually made him drown in his lung mucus but it helped him breathe. I shot the liquid IV once but it was nothing special, was like being stoned instantly but a lil closer to eating pot then smoking it.
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JRayV
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Re: Cannabis pill on horizon [Re: rizingfire]
#7930622 - 01/25/08 04:12 PM (16 years, 7 days ago) |
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I believe Marinol is an isolated active chemical. There are others found to be active also in cannabis. Maybe these new drugs are more complex, and give a more wholistic effect. I haven't looked into it so I really don't know.
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fapjack
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Re: Cannabis pill on horizon [Re: rizingfire]
#7930747 - 01/25/08 04:33 PM (16 years, 7 days ago) |
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Marinol is just THC, its missing a shit ton of other cannabonoids that are normally in marijuana. Its going be interesting to see what medical marijuana supporters have to say about this. I find it histarical how so many people support medical marijuana as a step to full marijuana legalization. If you ask me, fuck medical marijuana, make it legal for everyone. It has too many side effects to be prescribed in the first place (except maybe as an appetite stimulant). Its almost like prescribing alcohol for insomnia.
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danlennon3
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Re: Cannabis pill on horizon [Re: JRayV]
#7931196 - 01/25/08 05:56 PM (16 years, 7 days ago) |
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Quote:
JRayV said: I believe Marinol is an isolated active chemical. There are others found to be active also in cannabis. Maybe these new drugs are more complex, and give a more wholistic effect. I haven't looked into it so I really don't know.
I would think it would give you the opposite of wholistic because a pill would target a specific cannabinoid receptor. certain pills will be targeting things like pain or appetite... so pills for appetite will have no recreational value. pills for pain will. These are just examples, but I am assuming that the reason they are making some of these pills are to block out certain receptors that would get you high.
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Gratos
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Re: Cannabis pill on horizon [Re: fapjack]
#7932005 - 01/25/08 08:35 PM (16 years, 7 days ago) |
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Its almost like prescribing alcohol for insomnia.
I find it strange that I cant think of a better cure for insomnia ATM. Kind of an inversion of 'the cure is worse the the disease' I guess.
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JusListen
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Re: Cannabis pill on horizon [Re: Gratos]
#7933368 - 01/26/08 01:43 AM (16 years, 6 days ago) |
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I read in HT once, that a cancer patient hated "Marinol", has it left her on the couch stoned out, for sometimes 3 days lol, becuase Marinol has a 80-95% THC. She also claimed it really didnt let her eat well while taking it. However, while recieving medicinal Sativa, which usually has a 25-35% THC. She said she felt so much better, and got the "munchies" alot lol..
just some shit I read a few years back
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ChiefGreenLeaf

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Re: Cannabis pill on horizon [Re: Disco Cat]
#7934440 - 01/26/08 11:12 AM (16 years, 6 days ago) |
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I'm curious to see if big pharm companies can ruin the cannabis experience. THC, CBN, CBD can all be altered to work on the same chemical receptors, but in slightly different ways. I think the Netherlands has the right idea. It already works naturally, why bother?
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