Nasal Spray with hemp cope with epilepsy
Interestingly, not only the cooperation of pharmaceutical companies of several countries from different continents on issues related to the medical use of cannabis. Australia quickly makes every effort to legalize and facilitate the access of patients to medicines based on cannabis.
Australian pharmaceutical company MGC Pharmaceuticals jointly with the Israeli company SipNose created a nasal spray with cannabis for the treatment of epilepsy.
The medicine will be distributed in Australia, for which the leadership of the country will have to make appropriate changes in legislation. However, a spokesman for the Australian company Ross Walker (Ross Walker) notes that it is only on the medicinal use of cannabis, use of psychoactive cannabis remains in the country is illegal. The developers believe that to obtain approval may take up to one and a half years.
spray tests were successful. In one experiment involved 137, and the other - 220. The use of a new drug helped reduce the frequency of attacks by 36-54%. In addition, studies have been conducted, with the participation of terminally ill patients and children with severe epilepsy.
The drug also helps to cope with severe pain in cancer patients, according to developers - Spray soon will be tested on 330 patients with various forms of cancer.
Comment of the Association "Ukrainian industrial hemp"
This material is interesting not only cooperation of pharmaceutical companies of several countries from different continents on issues related to the medical use of cannabis. Australia, in which only a few months ago, the use of cannabis was permitted for medical purposes, will actively introduce drugs on the basis of hemp on the continent, and "on the fly" by making changes to the existing legislation. Simply put, the state as quickly as possible is doing everything possible to legalize and facilitate the access of patients to medicines based on cannabis.
How quickly and effectively solve this issue in Ukraine, can be seen by analyzing the dynamics of changes in the profile law, which should allow in our country to use cannabis for medical and scientific purposes. Accordingly, after the adoption of the above-mentioned legislative changes, amendments to the by-laws and regulations, which will enable the medical and scientific community of our country to investigate the biological properties of leaves and inflorescences, rich beznarkoticheskimi cannabinoids, in which there is no controlled tetrahydrocannabinol.
Information taken from the site http://tku.org.ua