Epileptic boy, 12, will get cannabis oil
Been following this case.
Glad to see a bit of common sense happening.
There are legal routes to getting THC but they need to be more widely prescribed and a lot of doctors don't seem to want to take the risk.
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Story has been updated.
"The oil arrived at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, where Billy is being treated, on Saturday afternoon. It was administered under a special 20-day licence and is not allowed to be taken home."
So he'll be kept in hospital for a few weeks and then this whole thing will start again.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Sat 16 Jun 2018, 13:30,
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I could do with some of that, for medicinal purposes you understand. 283 days.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sat 16 Jun 2018, 14:05,
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People need to listen to science more and politicians less.
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Draconacticus Reject shampoo. Demand real poo!, Sat 16 Jun 2018, 14:07,
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But politicians are experts in everything by virtue of the fact they win an election. We should certainly defer to them on Brexit, amongst other things.
The leaders of the EU have such levels of expertise they don't need to waste their time with elections.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sat 16 Jun 2018, 14:23,
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No. We should feed them all into a wood chipper and start again.
I advocate going back to the system of local representation by iron age kings who we sacrifice on a big rock should the harvest fail.
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Draconacticus Reject shampoo. Demand real poo!, Sat 16 Jun 2018, 15:16,
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As of about 2pm today I have decided being ruled by a facististic, whimsical, marching cat band would be good.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sat 16 Jun 2018, 15:43,
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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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Growing up I had access to fine fresh buds, pollen press hash and Thai Sticks.
Kids these days are smoking the dope equivalent of meths.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Sat 16 Jun 2018, 18:40,
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google 'uk drug minister husband'
for recent news reports and lols
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Sat 16 Jun 2018, 18:54,
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also:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/06/britain-largest-exporter-legal-cannabis-world-despite-ban/
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Sat 16 Jun 2018, 19:07,
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We’re number one!
We’re number one!
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Sat 16 Jun 2018, 21:30,
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