MS Sufferers Blocked from 'Life-Changing' Cannabis-Based Drugs

[OZ Stoners]

Fampyra and sativex have been licenced in recent years to help people who experience mobility problems and muscle spasms. However, the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (Nice) is due to reject the drugs as treatments for MS, with experts saying they are not cost-effective. In a letter to the Daily Telegraph, a group of experts including the head of the MS Society and seven ...

 

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[K-9]

This is exactly why people must be allowed to make their own medicine.  It honestly will not matter who else makes it because there will be costs down the line turning a health matter into a financial one and when you start bringing money into any equation greed is inevitably dragged in with it.  The pharmaceutical companies could easily produce a pound of buds for a mere $20 using natural lighting, mechanical trimmers, etc. decarb it for an hour for maybe $1, use not even $1 worth of iso which is mostly recovered to make the extraction and then finally making putting the oil in a solution, testing it and packaging it up which would actually cost a bit for an entire run but lets just say it costs $1 per prescription and from the pound you get 10 prescriptions making the total production cost just over $30 yet the cost to the consumer is listed at around 10x that in the article.  No wonder the government has said its not cost effective