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05-23-2004, 11:54 AM
Medical-Marijuana Advocates Meet
Posted by CN Staff on May 23, 2004 at 09:45:46 PT
By Tammie Smith, Times-Dispatch Staff Writer
Source: Times-Dispatch
Researchers at conference in Charlottesville are talking about new developments.
Still being studied: a "pot patch" that would deliver the active ingredients in marijuana through a skin patch for patients who are prescribed medical marijuana. Also in development: alternative delivery methods for therapeutic marijuana, such as a marijuana vaporizer and a marijuana-based spray squirted under the tongue.
None has made it to the market and that, medical-marijuana advocates say, is a tragedy for patients who could benefit from the medically proven, pain-dulling and appetite-increasing effects of cannabis.
"Our hope is that . . . public-health and health-care officials are made aware of the science and, once they understand the science, realize there is no excuse for it being prohibited," said Mary Lynn Mathre.
She is a nurse and president and co-founder of Patients Out of Time, one of the sponsors of the third National Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics being held in Charlottesville yesterday and today.
Article:
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18892.shtml
Posted by CN Staff on May 23, 2004 at 09:45:46 PT
By Tammie Smith, Times-Dispatch Staff Writer
Source: Times-Dispatch
Researchers at conference in Charlottesville are talking about new developments.
Still being studied: a "pot patch" that would deliver the active ingredients in marijuana through a skin patch for patients who are prescribed medical marijuana. Also in development: alternative delivery methods for therapeutic marijuana, such as a marijuana vaporizer and a marijuana-based spray squirted under the tongue.
None has made it to the market and that, medical-marijuana advocates say, is a tragedy for patients who could benefit from the medically proven, pain-dulling and appetite-increasing effects of cannabis.
"Our hope is that . . . public-health and health-care officials are made aware of the science and, once they understand the science, realize there is no excuse for it being prohibited," said Mary Lynn Mathre.
She is a nurse and president and co-founder of Patients Out of Time, one of the sponsors of the third National Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics being held in Charlottesville yesterday and today.
Article:
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18892.shtml