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Cannibus When Will It Become A Drug Whether cannabis should be legally available for medicinal purposes was the subject of a hot topic session at this year's British
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Whether cannabis should be legally available for medicinal purposes was the subject of a hot topic session at this year's British Pharmaceutical Conference.
The session chairman, Mr SULTAN DAJANI (member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Council) welcomed the audience and began on a lighthearted note suggesting that "Pot luck or miracle cure" might have been an alternative title for the session.
In a more serious vein, he went on to say that there was a growing belief that cannabis had therapeutic benefits and that this ought to be properly investigated in the best interest of patients. "We [pharmacists] must be the forerunners in this initiative," Mr Dajani stated. He also drew attention to recent cases where the legal system had shown "clemency" towards patients who were using cannabis for medicinal purposes. Few ideas, it seems, are so firmly held by the public and so doubted by the medical profession as the healing powers of pot. But at last, researchers are tiptoeing into this field, hoping to prove once and for all whether marijuana really is good medicine. To believers, marijuana's benefits are already beyond discussion: Pot eases pain, settles the stomach, builds weight and steadies spastic muscles. And that's hardly the beginning. They speak of relief from PMS, glaucoma, itching, insomnia, arthritis, depression, childbirth, attention deficit disorder and ringing in the ears. Marijuana is a powerful and needed medicine, they say, tragically withheld by misplaced phobia about drug addiction. However, the drive to legalize medical marijuana is based almost entirely on the testimonials of sick people who swear it makes them feel better. Those stories are not the kind of dispassionate experimentation that drives medical thinking.
``We lack evidence that there is something unique about marijuana, other than an impressive number of anecdotal reports,'' says Dr. Billy Martin, chief of pharmacology at the Medical College...
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