Ask yourself something, if today Congress made ext
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Posted On: 11/09/2017 7:02:15 PM
Ask yourself something, if today Congress made extracts from the cannabis plant a category 3 substance, what would happen.
Unless I'm mistaken, all this would do is open the door to drug development using these extracts. The products being sold in Green Cross stores have never been in clinical trials and FDA approved, I still believe they'd still be in the same state they are today if people like Session's decided to go after them. It would be different if they made the entire plant legal for use in any way you choose to use it, but in my mind, that isn't what category 3 means. Please feel free to show me where I'm wrong.
OWCP is taking a drug like approach to its products, but I believe they would need product sales probably elsewhere before they could fund the cost of full FDA trials required for approval. In time it could be done, or perhaps they could gain approval beccause of the overwhelming anecdotal evidence that would build up from it's use in other places, or even here in the U.S. if it's sold in Green Cross stores.
Personally I believe that smoke is unhealthful to the lungs regardless of what particulate is found in the smoke if their is another way to gain the same benefits. In the case of cannabis, I believe our sublingual tablets can meet the same demand, and do so in a manner that can't be detected, other than in the behavior of the user. Certainly the composition of the tablet used for autism, PTSD, etc will be different from that used to provide a recreational high, etc. I believe that ultimately many forms of the sublingual tablet would be available, some which could be purchased over the counter, some of which would only be purchased by prescription. Like many other drugs, many of these might be identical, but if you have a prescription, your insurance could make it dramatically cheaper than the exact same product being purchased over the counter.
If you doubt what I'm saying is true, if you're taking a drug like Omeprazole and buying it over the counter, ask your Dr. for a prescription and see what it costs if you have insurance. I'm guessing you'll get a 90 day supply for well under what you'd pay for a 24 day supply over the counter. I cannot say how much the drugmaker is paid, but I suspect that the OTC product is more profitable, but the prescription drug is still available as Doctor's know their patients won't pay the price of the OTC drug when they're used to paying a fraction of it before the drug was approved to be sold OTC. For the uninsured, the OTC product may be dramatically cheaper than the prescription.
Gary
Unless I'm mistaken, all this would do is open the door to drug development using these extracts. The products being sold in Green Cross stores have never been in clinical trials and FDA approved, I still believe they'd still be in the same state they are today if people like Session's decided to go after them. It would be different if they made the entire plant legal for use in any way you choose to use it, but in my mind, that isn't what category 3 means. Please feel free to show me where I'm wrong.
OWCP is taking a drug like approach to its products, but I believe they would need product sales probably elsewhere before they could fund the cost of full FDA trials required for approval. In time it could be done, or perhaps they could gain approval beccause of the overwhelming anecdotal evidence that would build up from it's use in other places, or even here in the U.S. if it's sold in Green Cross stores.
Personally I believe that smoke is unhealthful to the lungs regardless of what particulate is found in the smoke if their is another way to gain the same benefits. In the case of cannabis, I believe our sublingual tablets can meet the same demand, and do so in a manner that can't be detected, other than in the behavior of the user. Certainly the composition of the tablet used for autism, PTSD, etc will be different from that used to provide a recreational high, etc. I believe that ultimately many forms of the sublingual tablet would be available, some which could be purchased over the counter, some of which would only be purchased by prescription. Like many other drugs, many of these might be identical, but if you have a prescription, your insurance could make it dramatically cheaper than the exact same product being purchased over the counter.
If you doubt what I'm saying is true, if you're taking a drug like Omeprazole and buying it over the counter, ask your Dr. for a prescription and see what it costs if you have insurance. I'm guessing you'll get a 90 day supply for well under what you'd pay for a 24 day supply over the counter. I cannot say how much the drugmaker is paid, but I suspect that the OTC product is more profitable, but the prescription drug is still available as Doctor's know their patients won't pay the price of the OTC drug when they're used to paying a fraction of it before the drug was approved to be sold OTC. For the uninsured, the OTC product may be dramatically cheaper than the prescription.
Gary
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