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Cannabis ingredient causes toxic psychosis

Nic Fleming

The Telegraph

Saturday 02 Apr 2005

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Cannabis-based medicines can induce dangerous psychotic reactions in
patients, according to research published yesterday.

Volunteers had to be withdrawn from experiments into the effects of the
main active ingredient of the drug on driving ability because they were
suffering from symptoms including paranoid delusions and anxiety.

Swiss scientists were forced to halt tests when two students had strong
reactions to drobinol, a drug given to cancer patients to relieve the side
effects of chemotherapy. Drobinol, made of synthetic THC, the component of
cannabis that gives users a high, is not licensed in Britain, but trials of
a pain relief medicine for multiple sclerosis sufferers containing THC are
taking place in this country.

Dr Bernard Favrat, an internal medicine specialist at the University of
Lausanne in Switzerland, whose research was published in the journal BMC
Psychiatry, said he was taken aback by the strength of the reactions.

"We were very surprised to find cases suffering from acute and dangerous
toxic psychosis," Dr Favrat said.

 

 

 

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