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UK: Town cancer patients in cannabis trials
Bromsgrove Standard, UK
Thursday 08 May 2003 CANCER patients from Bromsgrove are to be involved in tests on the pain-relieving properties of cannabis. Dr Andrew Wijnberg, who is based at the Cornhill Surgery in New Road, Rubery, will be testing the drug on people from his own surgery, and some patients referred by Bromsgrove's Primrose Hospice, over the next month. Dr Wijnberg, who has been involved in a number of clinical trials on different drugs and treatments in the past, has now been commissioned to test out a cannabis extract under licence from the Home Office. He was hopeful it would have a positive effect. He said: "Cannabis will be quite a big new drug when it eventually hits the market and I'm sure that over the next year or so, it will be made available in some way. "I don't believe in complete legalisation - it is a drug that's potentially addictive so it has to be regulated but if it works it's going to be a significant improvement on the drugs we currently have for pain treatment." Volunteers should be able to tell whether the treatment has had a positive effect in just two weeks - in contrast to some of Dr Wijnberg's previous trials which have been for as long as six years. The drug will be administered by a spray under the tongue and if it works, the patients involved in the trials will be allowed to continue to use it until the treatment is legalised. No one from Bromsgrove's Primrose Hospice was willing to comment on the tests. david.aust@bromsgrovestandard.co.uk
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