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Sunday, May 18, 2008 Pharmaceutical 'Cannabis' Trials To Begin In Australia So it's okay to use cannabis to deal with the pain and nausea of cancer and AIDS, but only now that the drug is being supplied by a pharmaceutical company : Doctors will prescribe cannabis-based drugs to cancer, multiple sclerosis and AIDS patients in a planned NSW Government trial. NSW Health Minister Reba Meagher will write to Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon in the next few weeks for permission to import and trial a drug expected to be Sativex, which delivers cannabis compounds through an oral spray. "While the Iemma Government is opposed to the legalisation of marijuana, we do support a therapeutic trial of a cannabis-based drug," a spokeswoman for Ms Meagher said. The Australian Medical Association welcomed the trial. "We believe medicinal cannabis may be of benefit in HIV-related wasting and cancer-related wasting," said chairman of the association's public health committee Dr John Gullotta, adding that it might also relieve nausea and vomiting in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. The Cancer Council NSW welcomed the move. UK company GW Pharmaceuticals, the manufacturer of Sativex, grows cannabis then extracts cannabinoids CBD and THC. "The formulation is believed to enhance the pain relief of THC while modulating the unwanted psychotropic and other THC-related side effects, such as tachycardia [rapid heartbeat]," the company says. It's hardly different at all from natural cannabis, with the exception that the Sativex formulation has been patented, which is something no pharmaecutical company has been able to deal with the real thing. The support from the AMA and the Cancer Council is extremely positive for the case for medicinal cannabis, and will go a long way to tamping down the conservative hysteria that erupts every time someone dares to suggest that cannabis might actually be the wonder drug it has been claimed to be for thousands of years. http://theorstrahyun.blogspot.com/

dilated pupils?

He's a BRILLIANT evolutionary biologist... I wish he'd go back to his day job.

Hey, don't be knocking Argy ;) they're ahead of us in many, many respects. But good news! I'm going to be in B.A later this year, one less thing to worry about...

I ahte Safeway because they are part of the corporate duopoly that control our food security, it's scary to think about.

Nah, I doubt it, mescaline was fist isolated in like 1912 or something...

Yeah... The type-setting!

DOS attack? Or, if you want, I can go burn thir shop down Failing that I hear The Pirate bay sell server space in Sweden... Demonoid escaped legal action by transferring to the Ukraine

Yeah, that was my first thought. I've heard about people getting terrible life-long, unshakeable microbial infections from eating hash in India. Not so much bec ause of the hash rather all the crap (probably literally) that gets rolled up in it.

One in 5 scientists admits to drug use Marlowe Hood, Paris April 11, 2008 ONE in five scientists admit to using performance-enhancing prescription drugs for non-medical reasons, according to a survey. The overwhelming majority said they did so to "improve concentration", and 60% said they indulged on a daily or weekly basis. The 1427 respondents — most of them in the United States — completed an informal, online survey posted on the Nature Network web forum, a discussion site for scientists operated by the Nature Publishing Group. The results were published in the science journal Nature.More than a third said they would feel pressure to give their children such drugs if they knew other students at school were taking them. "These are academics working in scientific institutions," said Ruth Francis, who handles press relations for the group. The survey focused on three drugs widely available by prescription or on the internet. Ritalin, a trade name for methylphenidate, is a stimulant normally used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, especially in children. Modafinil — marketed as Provigil — is prescribed to treat sleep disorders, but is also effective against general fatigue and jet lag. Both medications are common currency on US college campuses, used as "study aids" to sharpen performance and wakefulness. The third variety of drugs included in the survey were beta blockers, prescribed for cardiac arrhythmia and popular among performers due to an anti-anxiety effect. Of the 288 scientists who said that they had taken one or more of the drugs outside a medical context, three-fifths had used Ritalin and nearly half Provigil. Only 15% were fans of beta blockers. Almost 70% of 1258 respondents who answered the survey said they would be willing to risk mild side-effects to "boost your brain power" by taking cognitive-enhancing drugs. Half of the drug-takers reported side-effects including headaches, jitteriness, anxiety and sleeplessness. AFP

Haha... You guys never cease to amaze me

go go gadget supply and demand

That's the one, thanks! Apparently it is quite popular in the American scientific community as a cognitive aid, I posted an article about it in News

Can anyone tell me what that narcolepsy drug they have been trialling in Sydney for meth addiction> I thought it was piracetem but can't find any hits for that. Any help would be muchos gracias

Sweeeeeeeet.... I mean, shit, I don't even eat pills anymore but I still think that is cool as fuck. Probably explains the wide availability of really strong bikkies like those cherries over NYE. Everyone seemed to be eating them.

British commanders fear that General Petreaus is about to announce that Iran is at war with the US in Iraq and will push for airstrikes http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml...05/wiran105.xml

Think Bob Hawke, the Silver Bodgie

::wanders off to nearest torrent site::

A very interesting article from The Guardian, really puts the looming US recession into perspective. Will this indeed be "The Big One"? http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/ma...omics.useconomy

Does anyone know if Benny is going to be at Iquitos again this year? I'd love to meet him...

^^ I'd assume it would be DMT, probably from acacia as they are common in the Middle East...

Strychnine was killer in roadside deaths March 3, 2008 - 3:41PM The two men who died mysteriously on the side of the road in Victoria's east last Tuesday had ingested strychnine, police said today. Strychnine, a deadly poison, is used primarily as a pesticide and is found in rat poison. The two men, Stephen Rees, 21, of Lang Lang and his friend, 19, also of Lang Lang, who has not been named at his family's request, died on Tuesday night on the side of Westernport Road at Lang Lang, south-east of Melbourne. One of them had told an emergency call operator they felt ill and local woman Cheryle Evans said she heard one of the men tell paramedics they took strychnine. Police today said toxicology reports confirmed both men ingested strychnine. Police said no other details from the report would be released as the coroner was continuing to investigate. Strychnine can cause many symptoms leading to death, including uncontrollable arching of the back and neck, rigid arms and legs, jaw tightness, muscle pain and soreness and inability to breathe. AAP

^^ Wow, that's great! Top work

I bought myself a ticket... VS, I'll hit you up with a PM in the next few days. If anyone else is going let me know

Viva el Comandante! Cuba Hasta la Victoria, Siempre!