Dave has posted on BB Facebook: Clinical Trials?I
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Posted On: 10/12/2013 11:34:00 PM
Dave has posted on BB Facebook:
Clinical Trials?
I was just asked "why didn't you wait until you have clinical trials?"
I think there is an obvious two-fold answer: People are dying and a huge body of research shows that concentrated cannabis medicine may save their lives.
Clinical trials are an important part of medicine. Almost all pharmaceutical medicines have very close ratios between the effective dose and the LD-50 (lethal dose). Pharmaceuticals are, in a word, dangerous. Also pharmaceutical drugs can have bad effects that show up years later, or even in the next generation or in an unborn child. Vast amounts of testing are needed before a new pharmaceutical can and should be brought to market; in many cases I am for far more stringent testing than what we have now.
That's not to say that all herbal or natural drugs are safe. But, when judged by the best yardstick for safety that I can imagine - the ratio between effective dose and lethal dose - cannabis is the safest and most tested medicine on the face of the earth.
It has been used for thousands of years and never killed a single person. The most powerful governments have been trying to prove its dangers for fifty years, spent fortunes trying to do so, and have found no negative effects on the body.
So while I am a huge believer in the value of clinical testing to determine the safety of new pharmaceuticals, I am hesitant to withhold our new medicine from those who need it just to repeat safety testing on the safest and most-tested herbal medicine on the face of the earth. But, rest assured, clinical trials will be initiated in a timely manner on all of the Dharmanol products.
Dave
Clinical Trials?
I was just asked "why didn't you wait until you have clinical trials?"
I think there is an obvious two-fold answer: People are dying and a huge body of research shows that concentrated cannabis medicine may save their lives.
Clinical trials are an important part of medicine. Almost all pharmaceutical medicines have very close ratios between the effective dose and the LD-50 (lethal dose). Pharmaceuticals are, in a word, dangerous. Also pharmaceutical drugs can have bad effects that show up years later, or even in the next generation or in an unborn child. Vast amounts of testing are needed before a new pharmaceutical can and should be brought to market; in many cases I am for far more stringent testing than what we have now.
That's not to say that all herbal or natural drugs are safe. But, when judged by the best yardstick for safety that I can imagine - the ratio between effective dose and lethal dose - cannabis is the safest and most tested medicine on the face of the earth.
It has been used for thousands of years and never killed a single person. The most powerful governments have been trying to prove its dangers for fifty years, spent fortunes trying to do so, and have found no negative effects on the body.
So while I am a huge believer in the value of clinical testing to determine the safety of new pharmaceuticals, I am hesitant to withhold our new medicine from those who need it just to repeat safety testing on the safest and most-tested herbal medicine on the face of the earth. But, rest assured, clinical trials will be initiated in a timely manner on all of the Dharmanol products.
Dave
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