This cannabis medicine for people with seizures should have always been available, pretending this is some great moment misreads how poorly the regulators planned things…
Ministry of Health approves homegrown cannabis to be turned into medicine for Kiwi patients
From today, New Zealand-grown medicinal cannabis can be prescribed here for the first time.
The Ministry of Health has just approved homegrown and manufactured medicines – so Kiwis no longer have to rely on imported medicinal cannabis.
…this is just another attempt to make the industry look like it’s doing something meaningful, a bit like Labour on Housing.
If cannabis were legalised, the New Zealand industry could employ about 5000 people and reap almost $1.1 billion in taxes a year, two in-depth reports by Business and Economic Research Ltd have shown.
We haven’t ended up with that promise of cannabis in NZ.
This Medicinal Cannabis Industry is a rigged market just like the Supermarket industry that has allowed basic refined medicine that gives none of the enjoyment of cannabis for a product that should have always been available for people with seizures.
This isn’t a success, it’s another broken market rigged for the super rich.
The only winners are organised crime who continue to sell to a market of stoners who refuse to engage in the profit margins of the corporate pharmaceutical industry.
The failures of the Medicinal Cannabis market manages to highlight all the problems with Labour – no ability to actually deliver.
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Yep, Andrew has some sort of problem with Cannabis that’s for sure, as indicated by his spring loaded response to the release of the Cannabis Referendum final result. I almost believe that had the YES vote prevailed by the same slim margin as the Nopes that the Govt. would not have abided by the result.
Jacinda did not help one little bit either, so one can only think she has problems with Cannabis too. Labour technically did what it had to for the Greens by running the Referendum. And then they distanced themselves like people do with a turd in a swimming pool.
Then COVID interrupted the flow of the campaign from the pro lobby, which was all over the road without a united approach anyway. And, some genius invited the US prohibitionist Cannabis group SAM–Smart Approaches to Marijuana–to join in. SAM shared an office and ISP with Family First and spent hundreds of thousands more than allowed on the Nope Campaign. So it was a right fuck up. No interest from the Govt. in looking into that little affair.
So, we keep on campaigning, and Greens and the rest of us better make sure Cannabis legalisation and industry establishment is high up the agenda if another Labour Govt. is going to happen and needs support parties.
PGR Bud – You Might Be Smoking This RIGHT NOW (Is it safe?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxVDFXrPRo8
25 years of trying to get medical cannabis, watching friends die and committee suicide during the wait was hard.
But, it feels worse now. A system which would not have helped any of them. A system so difficult to manage your way through. And so bloody expensive that people are asking family and friends for help with costs, is heartbreaking.
This is the part which causes so much frustration and disgust with the labour party. They can’t even get a simple medical product out to people, without it being captured by the GREEDY.
Greed, will destroy our world. It might have already won.
While I think marijuana, particularly the modern varieties, is one of the most evil drugs around, for its effect on the general attitude of the user, it would make a heck of a lot more sense to just legalize personal growing of a few plants than to make it another business.
The ‘legal weed’ outfits in the US are just making more and more potent weed, not just applying selective breeding but even genetic engineering, and it’s doing awful things for rates of cannabis-induced psychosis.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-weed-became-new-oxycontin-marijuana-psychosis-addiction
Mercenary Big Pharma and Big Tobacco and THC addiction/dependence economics. The bump from 2 to 20% from 2% THC to 20% and then the focus on the delivery of a near exclusive THC product.
There are useful (other) components in the plant that help with nausea and recovery.
The primary non-psychoactive compound in cannabis, cannabidiol (CBD) suppresses nausea and vomiting within a limited dose range. Cannabidiol also seems to have anti-inflammatory, neuroprotective, analgesic, anxiolytic, and pain-relieving properties which can be potential mediators of recovery in athletes during regular training and competition.
Thus the old fashioned low 2% THC plants, or varieties with even lower THC being legally available for those with health conditions as a low cost option. With the commercially developed medicinal product being available for those who can afford it, or on government subsidy/health insurance.
Why be surprised that this government is breaking another promise . Does this let down rate worse than no children sleeping in cars affordable homes better help to mental health for children improved public transport less strain on health workers smaller classes the list goes on .
It will be interesting at the next election how they will make promises to improve thinks not done properly by the ,as government which was their catch cry 2017 and 2020
Perhaps Labour could use Nationals tactic of ” there is no housing crisis or health crisis or any other crisis ” because denial was an easy out for National. Now it’s an absolute and all Labours doing.
National simply can’t be trusted to tell the truth Trevor and without Winston I would hate to see the state of our country today with them in charge. Care workers earning $23 an hour, no chance.
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