Hard News: Kia kaha, Helen Kelly
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chris, in reply to
Or calling a spade a spade
“Northland’s family wins full public funding for GW Pharma spray bottles containing CBD, THC, Ethanol anhydrous, Propylene glycol, and Peppermint oil at a an annual taxpayer cost of $16,000.”
Each 100 microlitre spray contains:
2.7 mg delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and 2.5 mg cannabidiol (CBD).
Each ml contains:
38-44 mg and 35-42 mg of two extracts (as soft extracts) from Cannabis sativa L., folium cum flore (Cannabis leaf and flower) corresponding to 27 mg delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol and 25 mg cannabidiol.
Extraction solvent: Liquid carbon dioxide.
Excipient(s) with known effect: each 100 microlitre spray also contains up to 0.04 g ethanol.Harking back to Russell’s original post
Even when, as was the case in November when Pharmac’s Pharmacology Therapeutics Advisory Committee advised against extending the subsidy for Sativex, the advice is frankly misguided. The committee advised against the funding in part because of the risk of “diversion” of Sativex for recreational use. Sativex is an oral spray containing a 50-50 ratio of the two main cannabinoids, THC and CBD – and is thus a poor candidate for getting high. The idea that criminals might seek to misuse it when actual cannabis (which will get you high) is widely available is simply ludicrous. But that’s the nature of the environment we’re in.
Given the over-inflated price to the user despite the subsidy, Pharmac’s Pharmacology Therapeutics Advisory Committee might consider whether criminals will start manufacturing it – given the comparative ease and cheapness of production against something like Methamphetamine – saving money for the country and those in need while offering a substantially greater profit margin than any other substance on the black market.
Meanwhile New Zealand’s opportunity to get in on the ground floor of an exciting and valuable new industry slips out of our hands.
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This evening's Checkpoint With John Campbell interview with Helen Kelly. She is amazing.
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Hilary Stace, in reply to
Both John Campbell and Helen Kelly were nominated for New Zealander of the Year. Despite extensive support neither got through to the short list. Perhaps they should have played sport..
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Rosemary McDonald, in reply to
Perhaps they should have played sport..
A sad reflection of the times.
Maybe we should have an alternative vote...along the lines of
"The REAL New Zealander of the Year".
I vote for Helen Kelly.
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A Northland woman has become the first person in the country to receive publicly-funded Sativex (medicinal cannabis) to control severe epilepsy. But not without a huge battle, help from a generous benefactor, then a contribution from Winz and finally the Northland District Health Board.
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MoH dicking Helen Kelly around. Russell has more detail to add tomorrow.
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While Peter Dunne's department is playing silly buggers and delaying Helen Kelly's application to use medicinal cannabis, the NSW government is putting millions into cannabis research. State premier Mike Baird sees Australia leading the world in this area.
All of us have been moved by the stories we have seen, people who are suffering in all types of situations and circumstances and there is clear anecdotal evidence medical cannabis is making a difference.
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Sadly, Helen Kelly has passed away aged just 52.
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Some posthumous further progress on medicinal funding.
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