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Originally Posted by nsw43 (Post 816561)

There's a cannabis-based pharmaceutical called Sativex that's approved in the UK, Canada and some other countries for use in MS spasticity and neuropathic pain. It's in a Phase III trial in the US, and I've been hoping it will get approved here but so far it hasn't.

The good thing about having something like Sativex is the THC is pure and metered so you get the same dose every time. Also it's dispensed as a mist and absorbed sublingually, which is nice for those of us who have a hard time smoking.

Here's a link for more information: http://www.gwpharm.com/Sativex.aspx

Yes, but from what I hear you can only possibly get it privately here in the UK , or with Insurance ( its not cheap )

See for yourself

The NHS refusing cancer patients drugs, so what hope do I have ? :(

m

Strange - I dont see my last post .

There is another pill too here for any one interested - I have no idea what the price is , but I can tell you the Sativex costs £480 here in the uk - not cheap !

tepol

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Originally Posted by melon (Post 816755)

Way too expensive for me! hopeful

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Originally Posted by hopeful (Post 816800)

Way too expensive for me! hopeful

Your not alone...

Its worse I have so many other issues that keep jerking me around , to ever know which way to turn.

Ive been disabled and housebond now for year as result , and probably should of taken up indoor gardening .

The argument against drugs as someone who used them for " spiritual purposes " really gets under my skin, alcohol far exceeds it for related deaths - yet if anything is advertised and freely sold too much.

Once again drink sells, esp when mixed with hormones , and 1 % get rich.

melon

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Originally Posted by melon (Post 816805)

you are so right Melon, it is so unfair. Our NHS is ruined and the people who need it most are wasting away on lists, but hey ho the bosses are meeting their targets so that's ok.
Everything always comes down to cost, and as you say alcohol makes money!
Sorry for the rant

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Originally Posted by malawigirl08 (Post 816817)

Well thos NICE guidelines ( talk about taking the pi** ) certainly make for interesting reading about what is and is not and how much of what applies to whatever they want.

The problem is that the average person is like cattle, you can milk them for all its worth but as long as they get their basic requirements of sex , booze ,gossip,fashion, sport ( soccer here usually ) tv and their carryouts their as happy as lala.

So the majority are just clueless.. and the ones that arent are labelled as kooks, anti social or whatever for the same reason they've typecast and lumped all drugs users as bad evil people and smokers now as satan himself.

People dont change unless their forced too , but unfortunately that wont happen unless something else forces to first.

This is probably one of my favourite links , its literal field guide on the typical approach used by the NHS doctor, Id defy any one here who has not at least experinced more than one of these examples during their troubles.

peace

melon

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Originally Posted by malawigirl08 (Post 816817)

Its not even the case where it just money but sciencism from the scientists themselves that ensures the rhetoric thinking and same old egos are satisfied at the expense of progress, and culture of fear , peer pressure ( based on their own needs ) rather than discovery or progress comes first.

The Apple as it were is rotten right through to the core .

How easily they forget, or rather choose to forget history.

melon