Sydney pharmacist says there is no import barrier to medical marijuana

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1. poledriver

   

   Sydney pharmacist says there is no import barrier to medical marijuana

   
   
   
   

    

    

   A SYDNEY pharmacist has weighed into the medical marijuana debate, arguing that the systems to import and distribute the drug are already in place.

   
   
   

   Daryll Knowles, the owner of Australian Custom Pharmaceuticals, said medicinal cannabis could easily be imported from Holland and administered in the same way as the current methadone program.

   
   
   

   “It’s not such a tough hurdle, the systems are already in place to import narcotics like codeine and morphine, the NSW Ministry of Health already has processes in place to distribute these, and cannabis could be added to that,” he said.

   
   
   

   Mr Knowles has followed the plight of 24-year-old Dan Haslam, who has incurable bowel cancer and has fortnightly chemotherapy treatments, which cause severe nausea and weight loss.

   
   
   

   Since trying cannabis late last year he has not suffered nausea and has been able to eat normally.

   
   
   

   His father Lou, a former drug squad detective, and his mother, Lucy, are forced to break the law to get the illegal drug they call miraculous.

   
   
   

   Health Minister Jillian Skinner knocked back the pro-medicinal cannabis recommendations of a cross party committee last year.

   
   
   

   “The quality and safety of these products cannot be guaranteed,” she said.

   
   
   

   However, the Health Minister said she did support the use of prescription pharmaceutical cannabis products that were approved and regulated by the Therapeutic Goods Administration.

   
   
   

   Mr Knowles said the Dutch-based company Fag-ron already produced medicinal grade cannabis and exported it to other European companies.

   
   
   

   “The process to get it here is there, it is a standardised medicinal grade, it is sterilised and comes in little sealed 5g pots that the Dutch government sells for €28 ($40),” Mr Knowles said.

   
   
   

   Dan’s mother said she was frustrated by politicians who stood in the way.

   
   
   

   “You come up with a solution and they just throw up another argument, I don’t care how it happens, it just needs to happen,” Lucy Haslam said.

   
   
   

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poledriver

 

However, the Health Minister said she did support the use of prescription pharmaceutical cannabis products that were approved and regulated by the Therapeutic Goods Administration.

ie sativex (nasal spray) and tablet form made by big pharma and only for the terminally ill. No thanks. How about we do it like Colorado.

Why the hell would we have to import weed anyway? Put out tenders or licenses and get it grown on mass here, creates more jobs and then sell it to ANYONE (over 18) who wonts it, even if it is 20 buks a gram (hopefully cheaper tho, especially if you got an ounce at once lol). Massive amounts of tax for the government, the sick can get as much as they wont then too.

Stop pussy footing around with this sativex and tablet shit idea and move forward.

You allow anyone over 18 to buy as much alcohol or tobacco as they like but they can't buy any weed legally? Wtf.

 

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Love that comment at the end. I think I've actually said pretty much the same in another thread.

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I don't see the debate on purity when mass amounts of BHO (or CWE or whatever extraction method is best industrialized) could be produced and then evenly applied to leafy material. You can analyze the extract via HNMR and be 100% of its chemical make up.

Basic science > advanced politics

Edited July 9, 2014 by doxneed2c-me

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Anything > advanced politics