Cannabis pills to hit the market by 2013

[grace]

Cannabis pills to hit the market by 2013

ASia Pacific Post

Wed, June 18 2008

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Drug company Echo Pharmaceuticals expects to sell the world’s first cannabis pill within five years, targeting a $7.76 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.

 

Echo Pharmaceuticals Chief Executive Officer Geert Woerlee told Reuters in an interview that studies showed that cannabis-based drugs may be effective for diseases like 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.

 

Cannabis has a long history of medicinal use. It was used as a Chinese herbal remedy around 5,000 years ago, while Britain’s Queen Victoria is said to have taken cannabis tincture for menstrual pains. "The big advantage of administering cannabis via a pill is that the drug is adopted easier by the body compared to alternatives," Woerlee said.

 

Woerlee said bringing a drug to the market normally takes about five years but he was hoping to take the drug on faster track.

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"The big advantage of administering cannabis via a pill is that the drug is adopted easier by the body compared to alternatives," Woerlee said.

 

Don't see how a pill could ever be absorbed in the body easier than vapourized, homegrown bud

 

Ohh Geert, you mean adopted easier by the corporate body.. gotcha

[Low_ryder]

I wonder if this will be a pill containing only thc or if the pharma companies ever will do some research into the synergy effect you get from various active materials in the cannabis plant. Whatever is easier and creates more revenue right

[Indycar]

To create a cannabis pill, is about as silly as a grower using solar powered setup to grow a crop, indoors.

 

WTF, is wrong with Al-la-natural people?

 

[Rocker]

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The big advantage of administering cannabis via a pill is that the drug is adopted easier by the body compared to alternatives," Woerlee said.

 

The real advantage is big pharm can make a motza!

Or in plain language lots of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

[Radic]

i hear yahz

i give thanx and praize every day

self medication rulez for we

i love the self sufficient path too

natural way is strictly organic

gotta love dat

from the garden to the medicine chest

freedom to be inderpendant

artonimus

yes i

hear dat

loud and clear

yo

how many people would not want that??????

 

well astoundingly nuff

 

bout 90% of the people actually choise to let someone elce be responicible for their health and wellbeing

bazzar

i know

but

i have seen this happen even right here in nimbin

with people who know the truth

who read all the studdies

when they get sick

straight to the doctors and hospitables, who usually blame cannabis foir their ailment

and advise them to quit cannabis

they do so

on and off style

then their ailment gets worse

till they have major sergery for some ting they read that cannabis can cure

some even believe the doctors give up cannabis totally and have even died because when they stoped taking cannabis they also stoped taking the medicine that was keepinjg them alive

tis a sad story

and it gets worse

my sister died in may from cancer

she did not believe cannabis could save her

she would not even consider trying it

she did not believe she could ever have a hope of self medication

beyound her caperbillities

she begged the doctors to save her

they tried for a year or so

as she struggled on bravely in blind faith

till eventualy

they told her she was going to die

and there was nothing more they could do for her

she went home to bed

her friends and family gather round to help her thru the pian

she suffered for 4days

her last words were

i dont want to see anyone

close the house up

be still and quiet so i can drift away

 

now i cant help thinking

if the cannabis pill was avaliable for her

and the doctors perscribed it for her

would i still have my big sister

 

now hear diss

 

any which way

legal cannabis must come

[Rocker]

I am sorry to read about the passing of your sister Radic. That is a sad story.

 

I sincerely hope you are right with these words.

 

any which way

legal cannabis must come

[Radic]

yes i am over it now mostly

thanx

smoking cannabis is not for everyone

yet if the medicinal qualities coulud be still available in a pill form

that may just have saved my sisters life

who was convinced smoking anyting would antaginize her condition

for her cannabis in a pill form perscribed by her doctors could have been the answer

[brick]

yes i am over it now mostly

thanx

smoking cannabis is not for everyone

yet if the medicinal qualities coulud be still available in a pill form

that may just have saved my sisters life

who was convinced smoking anyting would antaginize her condition

for her cannabis in a pill form perscribed by her doctors could have been the answer

 

Radic I am so sorry to hear about you sister. I lost my wife to cancer nearly two years ago so I know in part what your sister and family have been through. I too could not convince my wife to try some cannabis tea. Alas she would not even contemplate it. She was not into western medicine either, all natural medicine, if her naturopath had have prescribed it I am 100% positive she would have given it a try. Who knows what the outcome could have been.

[clopek]

how is this any different than marinol?