was looking on NCBI for evidence and there's not really that much evidence out there
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colmcq2, Sat 16 Jun 2018, 15:38,
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I expect that it’s bloody hard to get the licenses required to conduct trials
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Sat 16 Jun 2018, 15:46,
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Given that recreational weed use is now legal to use in about a dozen states I don't think it would be hard at all in the USA to conduct such trials.
We've been cultivating opium poppies in the the UK for medical purposes for over a decade. I think the various exemptions and licenses wouldn't be hard to come by. There certainly seems to be little will to pick it up and run with it though, and I don't think this is because of politics. Politics didn't hold back opiates in the USA. I think cannabis' curative properties are probably being massively overstated by stoners, and people in cases like this with anecdotal evidence.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sat 16 Jun 2018, 16:05,
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They can't patent it.
Ironically, more people have died of acute symptoms whilst testing the alternative formulations.
Also, 60+ years of propaganda.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sat 16 Jun 2018, 16:53,
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Just as that propaganda was being effectively debunked super strength skunk emerged and made the myth of Reefer Madness a reality.
And now we have synthetic cannaboid 'spice' to add to the mix. I was always about the hash.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sat 16 Jun 2018, 17:24,
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The power of a competitive market unfortunately.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sat 16 Jun 2018, 17:59,
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