New paper on Sativex, a cannabis extract spray

I don't have access to the entire article, but here's the abstract

Combined cannabinoid therapy via an oromucosal spray.

* Perez J.

Chronic Pain Unit, Department of Anesthesia, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. [email protected].

Extensive basic science research has identified the potential therapeutic benefits of active compounds extracted from the Cannabis sativa L. plant (the cannabinoids). It is recognized that a significant proportion of patients suffering with the debilitating symptoms of pain and spasticity in multiple sclerosis or other conditions smoke cannabis despite the legal implications and stigma associated with this controlled substance. GW Pharmaceuticals have developed Sativex(R) (GW- 1000-02), a combined cannabinoid medicine that delivers and maintains therapeutic levels of two principal cannabinoids, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD), via an oromucosal pump spray, that aims to minimize psychotropic side effects. Sativex has proved to be well tolerated and successfully self-administered and self-titrated in both healthy volunteers and patient cohorts. Clinical assessment of this combined cannabinoid medicine has demonstrated efficacy in patients with intractable pain (chronic neuropathic pain, pain due to brachial plexus nerve injury, allodynic peripheral neuropathic pain and advanced cancer pain), rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis (bladder problems, spasticity and central pain), with no significant intoxication-like symptoms, tolerance or withdrawal syndrome. (c) 2006 Prous Science. All rights reserved.

Whats the point of consuming THC if you dont get the full package. Minimize the psychotropic effects? The hell with Sativex, smoke some dried female cannabis flowers ;).

Btw, if Sativex becomes legal basically it's doing everything smoking cannabis would do except for alter your mind. So if this happens they better legalize marijuana lol.

What the fuck? Extracts and shit. What is really banned is the smoking of cannabis. Why? Let people use the holy herb the way they like