Use of marijuana extends in medicine

A quarter of a century after the administration of food and medicines of United States (FDA, for its acronym in English), approved the first drugs based on the main psychoactive marijuana ingredient there other remedies arising out of the plant cannabis inspired therein that could soon reach pharmacies in North America, laboratories, small biotechnology firms and scientific University.

A British laboratory, GW Pharma, performs clinical trials advanced to the first pharmaceutical remedy developed from pure marijuana rather than synthetic equivalents: a mouth spray which hopes to sell in United States as a treatment for cancer pain and hopes to achieve the approval of the FDA by the end of 2013.

Sativex contains the two most well-known components of marijuana - delta 9 - THC and cannabidiol - and has already been approved in Canada, New Zealand and eight European countries for use u000adifferent: alleviate muscle spasms associated with sclerosis multiple.

The approval of the Administration would represent a milestone in the attitude sometimes disturbing the nation toward marijuana, that 16 States and the District of Columbia already authorized with recommendation medical.

"There is a real disconnect between what the public seems to require that States have promoted and that the market supplies", said Aron Lichtman, Professor of Pharmacology at University Commonwealth of Virginia and President of the society international of research of Arachidonoylethanolamine.

"Seems to me that a very visionary company could say ' if there is this demand and need, could develop a drug to help people and also earn much money", he added.

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A drug dangerous and without value physician
the Department anti-drug (DEA) considers marijuana as a dangerous drug without medical value, u000abut the availability of a remedy on chemically similar prescription could increase pressures on the federal Government to reconsider its position and encourages other pharmaceutical companies to follow in the footsteps of GW Pharma. Still possessing marijuana is illegal in United States, but approximately a decade ago the founder of GW Pharma, Dr. Geoffrey Guy, received authorization to cultivate in order to develop a remedy under recipe.

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