Access Sativex

Access sativex

I am pleased to announce that Action4MS and Clear will be launching a joint campaign aimed at looking at and raising awareness of the disparity of prescription of sativex across the country. We aim to organise and help people apply for sativex and will document the results. a logo and facebook page will be up soon.

Sativex is produced by GW pharmaceuticals from whole cannabis plant extract and has been licensed in the UK for spasticy in MS. It is a sublingual spray and was made available in the UK in 2010 and is avalible in spain, canada and several other countries and is pending in many countries worldwide since the Swiss drug Giant Novartis has got involved. Despite passing all safety and efficacy tests proving sativex to be effective in treating spasticity in MS many Primary Health Care trusts across the UK will not fund the Medication, leading to a “post code lottery” type situation. Some of the primany health care trusts say this is for cost reasons with others disputing its effectiveness, some Primaary health care trusts in the midlands have even outright banned Sativex meaning many people are completely denided any acess to the medication at all. The news papers often have stories of people suffering and being denied the option of trying Sativex. but this all begs the question of why a licensed pharmaceutical drug is causing so much controversy???

It all comes down to one reason and one reason alone. The fact That cannabis is used to make sativex. This has lead to the huge cost to produce sativex, as GW had to jump through many hoops just to get Sativex on the market. It has also meant that public opinion and attitudes towards sativex have been undoubtedly swayed due to the years of propaganda that we have had to endure.

Dipite what GW, and now even the MS society are trying to imply, sativex is whole plant extract from cannabis, not just THC and CBD which it says on the bottle. Sativex contains the full range of cannabinoids that the plants it is made from contain, Sativex is cannabis.

For all those diagnosed with MS the beneficial effect of cannabis can be life changing so I would encourage you or anyone with a chronic condition to speak to your health professional about getting prescribed sativex, to anyone that wants to be apart of the campaign please get incontact with me via action4ms@hotmail.co.uk

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Cannabis Embarrassment At The Home Office

by Peter Reynolds

The re-scheduling of Sativex, the cannabis tincture marketed by GW Pharmaceuticals is causing huge embarrassment at the Home Office.

Everybody’s been able to go along with the white lie up to now that Sativex is some sort of highly complex, super scientific, super medicine containing cannabinoids. True enough, GW Pharma has put millions into development and testing in order to jump through the hoops the government has demanded. At the end of the day though, all Sativex consists of is a tincture, an alcohol extract of herbal cannabis. It’s made simply by gently heating a blend of herbal cannabis in ethanol and then adding a little peppermint oil to taste.

An Honourable Man?

The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved Sativex for the treatment of muscle spasticity in MS. I understand that an approval for the treatment of cancer pain is expected shortly. The problem for the Home Office is that Sativex now has to be re-scheduled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. Cannabis is presently in schedule one as having no medicinal value. The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) has recommended this week that Sativex be in schedule four, alongside a variety of minor tranquilisers. However, as the ACMD says, “it will not be appropriate to refer to “Sativex”, which is a proprietary name, in any amendment to the misuse of drugs regulations, and that a suitable description of the relevant component(s) of “Sativex” will have to be scheduled.”

This is going to be tough for James Brokenshire to face up to. GW specifies that Sativex contains approximately equal proportions of THC and CBD but that’s not the whole truth. It also contains as many as 400 other cannabinoids which occur naturally in the plant (nobody is exactly sure how many cannabinoids there are and what their effects are). You see there’s not really any other accurate way of describing Sativex except to call it cannabis. So how can Mr Brokenshire possibly move it to schedule four? He endlessly repeats the propaganda that “there are no medicinal benefits in cannabis”.

Either Mr Brokenshire has to come clean and accept that his past position was incorrect or he has to promote some further deception.

I trust he will prove to be an honourable man.

BBC - False Facts & Unfounded Scares

‘How Drugs Work – Cannabis’ (available for a few days on i-player here ) was broadcast last Thursday and the promised “cutting edge CGI” (computer generated imagery) was pretty good – if a little on the gory side in places but it showed what happens when you ingest cannabis, how it gets in to the body and what happens when it gets there in a pretty clear way.

Now experience has taught many of us on this side of the cannabis law reform debate to be wary of anything connected with BBC 3, there having been some truly awful programmes put out by that channel in the past, but none the less UKCIA was happy to carry the request for people to help in the hope that just for once we might help create a good, balanced report. It has to be said that reaction received at UKCIA and posted to various forums has not been good, although LCA spokesperson Peter Reynolds seems very impressed:

Well done to the BBC for its programme “How Drugs Work – Cannabis” tonight. It was a well balanced and wide ranging examination of the subject. Inevitably it looked at extreme cases and was sensational in parts but I thought it was fair.

I could pick at details. It certainly didn’t provide any comparisons against other drugs. It should have clarified how dramatically more dangerous is alcohol and with many fewer benefits but overall it was a good job, well done.

I am encouraged by this well produced treatment of the subject. We may well be making progress!

The truth is somewhere between the two extremes, it is true that the programme tried to present an informed view, but it also repeated some unfounded scares and stated things as fact with simply aren’t, as well as skating over one or two very obvious complications.

In true BBC 3 style the programme starts off by telling us what we’ve about to see, this is becoming a standard production technique which is really a bit pointless because we’re about to see it. The programme promised to show us what happens when you get stoned and to confront the myths. Perhaps in typical BBC3 style it promised to use

cutting edge research to discover “once and for all” if this is a harmless herbal high or the ultimate bad trip

If only things were that simple! Interesting to note here the use of the term “Bad trip” which belongs to the realm of LSD and has a quite specific meaning which can’t really be applied to cannabis in all honestly.

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BBC London's Inside Out: Medical Herbal Cannabis

SarahSoulFood

Sarah Martin has Multiple Sclerosis and, while the British government sells British manufactured cannabis medicines to other countries, it continues to deny it to it's own patients. Ed Stratton and many others are in a similar predicament. Countries such as Germany and Denmark purchase Sativex, made by GW Pharmaceuticals, as pain and spasm relieving medicine. Sativex is a cannabis tincture, effectively a new strain of SKUNK in a bottle. The tax payer should not be asked to support the growth of a benign plant and manufacture of a medicine that can be grown for free. Basic common sense and medical guidance will allow the patient to treat themselves safely in their own homes.

Many say I have balls for doing this. Well, I'm shaken with stress every time I watch this, resulting in some tears and anxiety. I personally can't imagine anything more patriotic than what myself and others are doing. We're trying to save lives and lessen suffering across the globe and £Billions for the British tax payers. Our reward for this voluntary work is the constant risk of arrest. We are in fact, driving public opinion on the government's behalf. It's OK Mr. Cameron, I don't even require your appreciation, just a change in drug policy. I also detest having to view those who run the nation as a bunch of political cowards who can't keep up with the compassion and logic of Europe. Never a vote winner with me.

The British government has been ignoring calls for changes already made in other European countries. Why is Britain so far behind when we used to be far ahead? Times change, I guess, but I have not been arrested despite my revelations. The police did not drag my name and address from the BBC. They are clearly more grown up than the government which continues to put it's fingers in it's ears and say, "blah blah blah we can't hear you". There seems to be some theory in practice whereby if they ignore us, the problem will go away. We tried it with them and they are sadly, still here. Mr Cameron, it does not work both ways or any way under the current status. And your argument that cannabis has 'no medical value'? What planet do you currently reside on mate? Even the mighty American Medical Association has decided that cannabis does have medical value. So enough of the bullsh*t please. We've had enough of the political lies and tabloid driven hysteria.

by Sarah Martin

Medical Cannabis in UK - Home Office Replies with Confusion (and Dusty Propaganda)

by UKCIA in News and comment

The story so far:

On October 6th I, along with many other people by all accounts, wrote to the Home office asking for clarification regarding the right to import medical cannabis under the Schengen agreement article 75. (See this blog entry from Setember 29th).

It was reported a few weeks later however that the Home Office had “made a mistake” and had given out the wrong advice; UK citizens were not in fact allowed to import cannabis for medical use (See this blog entry from October 31st)

A reply finally arrived from the Home Office on Thursday:

I am aware that this issue has arisen in the context of the UK’s obligations under article 75 of the Schengen Agreement which took effect in 2005. This provision allows for the free movement of travellers within the Schengen member states with their prescribed narcotic and psychotropic medication, provided they are resident in a country where that drug is legally prescribed; it has been prescribed by their doctors; it is necessary medical treatment for a maximum of 30 days and is for personal use only; and they have the appropriate certification from their relevant health authority. Of course, this is a reciprocal arrangement enabling UK residents to travel with their personal medication. The Dept of Health is the UK’s competent authority.

In respect of herbal cannabis I understand the health authorities in the Netherlands and Belgium allow herbal cannabis products to be purchased by doctors and dispensed to patients for a number of indications. In the limited circumstances described above, a Dutch or Belgium resident will be allowed to travel to the UK with herbal cannabis products prescribed in these countries.

However, a UK resident cannot rely on the Schengen Agreement to bring prescribed herbal cannabis into the UK from the Netherlands or Belgium. This activity would be in breach of UK law, amounting to the unlawful importation and possession of a controlled (sic) drug, and the UK resident would be liable for arrest and prosecution under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. We are committed to maintaining UK drugs laws and the government is seeking assurance from European authorities that checks in this system, including the checks that member states makes before issuing a Schengen certificate to an applicant are as robust as possible.

In the UK cannabis is controlled (sic) as a class B drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 and is listed Scehdule 1 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 as the UK does not recognise that it has medical use. The Government recognises that there are people with chronic pain and debilitating illness who are looking to alleviate their symptoms and who may not find adequate relief from existing medication. For them, the UK does recognise the medical value of a cannabis based medicine “Sativex”, which based on an assessment of its safety and efficiancy by the UK Regulatory Agency, has recently been granted a Marketing Authorisation.

However, we have no intention of altering our position on cannabis in its raw form. Cannabis is a drug that has a number of acute and chronic health effects and prolonged use can induce dependence. Most cannabis is smoked and smoking, in any form, is dangerous. Even the occasional use of the drug can pose significant dangers to people with mental health problems, such a schizophrenia and particular efforts need to be made to encourage abstinence in such individuals.

James Brokenshire

So there you have it, the government says “NO” and is clearly having non of this medical cannabis nonsense. Brokenshire seems to have no problem with the logic that whilst politicians insist there is no medical value to be had from cannabis use, doctors in other countries are prepared to prescribe it as a ” necessary medical treatment”. I wonder who knows best, a doctor or James Brokenshire?

The final paragraph about the dangers of cannabis is really quite pathetic and even if true is hardly a justification for imprisoning adults who make an informed decision to use cannabis, let alone children or ill people who should be protected by the law rather than treated as criminals. This shows an authoritarian streak in this government totally at odds with its public claims – the true face behind the mask perhaps?

So anyway where does all this leave UK law?

by UKCIA in News and comment

The story so far:

On October 6th I, along with many other people by all accounts, wrote to the Home office asking for clarification regarding the right to import medical cannabis under the Schengen agreement article 75. (See this blog entry from Setember 29th).

It was reported a few weeks later however that the Home Office had “made a mistake” and had given out the wrong advice; UK citizens were not in fact allowed to import cannabis for medical use (See this blog entry from October 31st)

A reply finally arrived from the Home Office on Thursday:

I am aware that this issue has arisen in the context of the UK’s obligations under article 75 of the Schengen Agreement which took effect in 2005. This provision allows for the free movement of travellers within the Schengen member states with their prescribed narcotic and psychotropic medication, provided they are resident in a country where that drug is legally prescribed; it has been prescribed by their doctors; it is necessary medical treatment for a maximum of 30 days and is for personal use only; and they have the appropriate certification from their relevant health authority. Of course, this is a reciprocal arrangement enabling UK residents to travel with their personal medication. The Dept of Health is the UK’s competent authority.

In respect of herbal cannabis I understand the health authorities in the Netherlands and Belgium allow herbal cannabis products to be purchased by doctors and dispensed to patients for a number of indications. In the limited circumstances described above, a Dutch or Belgium resident will be allowed to travel to the UK with herbal cannabis products prescribed in these countries.

However, a UK resident cannot rely on the Schengen Agreement to bring prescribed herbal cannabis into the UK from the Netherlands or Belgium. This activity would be in breach of UK law, amounting to the unlawful importation and possession of a controlled (sic) drug, and the UK resident would be liable for arrest and prosecution under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. We are committed to maintaining UK drugs laws and the government is seeking assurance from European authorities that checks in this system, including the checks that member states makes before issuing a Schengen certificate to an applicant are as robust as possible.

In the UK cannabis is controlled (sic) as a class B drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 and is listed Scehdule 1 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 as the UK does not recognise that it has medical use. The Government recognises that there are people with chronic pain and debilitating illness who are looking to alleviate their symptoms and who may not find adequate relief from existing medication. For them, the UK does recognise the medical value of a cannabis based medicine “Sativex”, which based on an assessment of its safety and efficiancy by the UK Regulatory Agency, has recently been granted a Marketing Authorisation.

However, we have no intention of altering our position on cannabis in its raw form. Cannabis is a drug that has a number of acute and chronic health effects and prolonged use can induce dependence. Most cannabis is smoked and smoking, in any form, is dangerous. Even the occasional use of the drug can pose significant dangers to people with mental health problems, such a schizophrenia and particular efforts need to be made to encourage abstinence in such individuals.

James Brokenshire

So there you have it, the government says “NO” and is clearly having non of this medical cannabis nonsense. Brokenshire seems to have no problem with the logic that whilst politicians insist there is no medical value to be had from cannabis use, doctors in other countries are prepared to prescribe it as a ” necessary medical treatment”. I wonder who knows best, a doctor or James Brokenshire?

The final paragraph about the dangers of cannabis is really quite pathetic and even if true is hardly a justification for imprisoning adults who make an informed decision to use cannabis, let alone children or ill people who should be protected by the law rather than treated as criminals. This shows an authoritarian streak in this government totally at odds with its public claims – the true face behind the mask perhaps?

So anyway where does all this leave UK law?

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UPDATE on Medical Cannabis in UK by Peter Reynolds

This is the third instalment in this story.

1. Legal Medicinal Cannabis In Britain

2. Update On Legal Medicinal Cannabis In Britain

Eventually The Guardian took some notice. See here.

Despite the pleas of those in pain and suffering, the Home Office was talking to Mary O’Hara of The Guardian but not to them. Dozens if not hundreds of medicinal cannabis users had written to the Home Office asking for confirmation that they could go to Holland for a prescription. Not a word was heard.

Jim Starr, the subject of this story, wrote to his MP, and then he wrote again. He heard nothing. He wrote to the Home Office, chasing up his application for a personal import licence. He heard nothing. He wrote again.

Dilatory

Richard Drax, the first timer, newly elected Tory MP for Dorset South just happens to be my MP too, so I wrote to him on Jim’s behalf.

Jim has heard nothing. Richard Drax asked me not to mention his name in any article about Jim. Jim wrote again. I wrote again. We have heard nothing.

Jim’s medicine has run out. We told the Home Office and Richard Drax that it was an urgent medical emergency. We have heard nothing.

I spent the last week on the telephone and exchanging emails with the Home Office. This is the result:

A Home Office spokesperson said:

The UK’s position is clear – cannabis is dangerous and has no medicinal benefits in herbal form. It remains illegal for UK residents to possess cannabis in any form.

Britons benefit from reciprocal laws which allow EU nationals, in limited circumstances, to travel with controlled medicines. We are working with European authorities to ensure the system is robust and not open to abuse.

The Home Office says you can import cannabis to the UK and use it without restriction provided you “are resident in a country where that drug is legally prescribed”. So it’s OK for the Dutch and the Belgians and the Spanish and the Italians and the Czechs and the Poles (and many others) to smoke weed in Britain but not if you’re British.

We Won't Give Up

This is clearly unequal, discriminatory, unjust and unsustainable in law but the Home Office is not about to give in. The only way to resolve this is that either someone must appeal a conviction all the way to the Supreme Court or there must be an application for judicial review.

Stay tuned for the next exciting instalment.

In the meantime, Jim and thousands like him will manage as best as they can.

He’s still heard nothing from either the Home Office or Richard Drax.

...Peter Reynolds Blog HERE...

What a Starr! - Jim Fixes It! Medical Cannabis in the UK

Last week Jim Starr flew into Bristol Airport from Amsterdam carrying 80 grammes of herbal cannabis as prescribed for him by a Dutch doctor. That’s just under three ounces of dried flower heads. He was carrying it in a parcel about the size of a telephone directory.

There was no one at customs, even though Jim went through the red channel and had telephoned ahead to advise the airport that he was bringing the cannabis in. He waited, even looked around for someone, anyone, but there was no one to be seen at all. He wanted to declare what he had with him. He’s never wanted to break the law. He knew that he was risking confiscation of the cannabis, possibly even arrest but the coast wasn’t just clear, it was deserted. The authorities had evidently decided that in their “war on drugs”, this time, discretion was definitely the better part of valour. They were in full scale retreat.

Jim had confirmed to the airport that he had the necessary paperwork to prove it was prescribed medicinal cannabis. His doctor had told him that he was protected under Article 75 of the Schengen Agreement which states “persons may carry the narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances that are necessary for their medical treatment provided that, at any check, they produce a certificate issued or authenticated by a competent authority”

Prescription

Of course, even then, it didn’t stop the journey being a nerve wracking and tense experience. Now, safely at home in Dorchester with his family, Jim understands from the Home Office that he is entitled to bring in the cannabis as prescribed for him by his Dutch doctor. He can bring in up to three month’s supply at a time if he carries it on his person. Otherwise he has to apply for an import licence and have it shipped to a UK pharmacist.

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Medical Cannabis in the UK - update

Posted in October 13th, 2010

by UKCIA in News and comment

The cannabis laws are rapidly descending ever deeper into farce because of the apparent ability to import medical cannabis from Holland under rights enshrined in the Schengen agreement mentioned a week or so back on this blog and several others. To recap the Shengen Agreement guarantees the right of a person prescribed medication in one member state to travel to any other member state with up to three months supply without need to declare it at customs. In the last blog the text of a letter from the home Office to a member of the public who enquired made the situation quite clear in that it also applied to people domiciled in this country. Since then UKCIA has heard on the grapevine that the Home Office has been briefing journalists that this is not the case.

A large number of people – including myself – have written to either the Home Office or their MP to ask for clarification and to date we haven’t heard of any replies.

One blog which has really got its teeth into this whole fiasco is the Peter Reynolds blog and Peter has just written an interesting update which provides more evidence that it is in fact legal to bring medicinal cannabis into the country and use it here without fear of criminal sanctions. As Peter writes and I can confirm, there has been an enormous amount of interest in these developments, yet the media has totally ignored it. As Peter writes the story

was offered to every quality national newspaper and The Daily Mail

Yet not one has covered developments, although the Mail has been running a number of cannabis makes you mad addicts stories.

However Peter does provide some more evidence of the legality of medical cannabis imported on prescription from Holland. He cites the (much hated by anti prohibition campaigners) United Nations Single Convention On Narcotic Drugs which states

the documentation required for the transport of such medicines across international borders as, simply, “a valid medical prescription”.

And article 23 of the Geneva Convention

protection is provided for the transport of medicines across borders.

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Medical Cannabis in the UK

Posted in September 29th, 2010

by UKCIA in News and comment

This is possibly the biggest development since prohibition was imposed on the UK and is really good news for lots of people who need cannabis for medical reasons. Over the past couple of weeks feedback to UKCIA has picked up considerably with people asking if it’s possible to obtain and use real cannabis – as opposed to the SATIVEX product – legally in this country. The answer it turns out is “yes”.

Two things have happened, neither all that recent. First there is the the Schenegen Agreement – the EU treaty which allows, amongst other things, for EU citizens to carry prescribed medicines anywhere in the EU. The other is Holland has legalised medical cannabis on prescription.

Article 75, sub 1 of the Schengen agreement reads:

As regards the movement of travellers to the territories of the Contracting Parties or their movement within these territories, persons may carry the narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances that are necessary for their medical treatment provided that, at any check, they produce a certificate issued or authenticated by a competent authority of their State of residence.”

The introduction of the certificate according to Article 75 Schengen aims to safeguard the free movement of travellers between and within the Schengen Member States, as national legislation on the availability and control of medical products that are (partly) based on narcotic drugs and/or psychotropic substances may vary between Member States. The presence of an authenticated certificate can avoid unnecessary delays and misunderstandings.

...So all you need is a Dutch doctor to agree to prescribe the cannabis then you go to Holland and get some, There is a Facebook page all about it here. Cannabis obtained this way is 100% legal and you can use it anywhere you like without fear of prosecution. Going through this mill might take a bit of organising but it’s not impossible and once arranged you can bring up to three months supply back with you and you don’t even have to declare it at customs.

The Dutch government has licensed a company to provide the legal medical cannabis, you can see the details including how much it costs here. There are three strains available and it is real cannabis – ie buds of herbal cannabis and not the expensive product manufactured by GW pharms.

UKCIA would advise anyone who needs SATIVEX and has been refused it because of funding restrictions – which seems to be the vast majority of MSers who have tried to get it – should take this route now.

The UK government has been keeping this very quiet but the secret is out now and will be hitting the media pretty soon...

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