The Sleeping Giant wrote:Why do doctors want laboratory manufactured synthetic cannabis? So they can get more kickbacks from the pharmaceutical industry.
This father in the article obviously cares for his daughter. But why hasn't he just purchased some illegally? These other drugs his daughter is on sound awful. Dope won't hurt her.
Synthetic versions offer the chance to achieve the medical benefits without the psycho-active complications and without making muddle headed users of the natural stuff a danger on the roads.
It has been an issue with herbal source derived treatments before...
For example, the early treatment of heart failure with the tincture (alcohol dissolved extract) of Digitalis was effective in treating heart failure but caused hallucinations and confusion, restricting theose who needed its from safely driving. The later separation of the tinctures components into what were named Digoxin and Digitoxin made this less risky by using Digoxin only. Later synthetic variants had even less side-effects.
Similarly, we could just munch the natural Penicillin mould off pieces of stale bread, but that has toxic effects too and could be fatal if you ate a similar looking but not the same mould. Extracting pure Penicillin worked better, and new synthetic variants provided effective antibiotics as bacteria became resistant to the basic form of Penicillin.
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 1:29 pm
