Canada: a new company will develop cannabis-based medicine
A new company called PhytoCan Pharmaceuticals got approval by Health Canada to develop cannabis-based medicine. A spokesman of the company said that they will do research over the next 12 to 18 months on whether the medicine should be a spray, liquid or solid and how to standardize the ingredients. On their website PhytoCan Pharmaceuticals state that they use "certified organic medical cannabis" grown in Canada: "Our goal is to develop and bring a range of safe effective cannabis based medicines to the pharmaceutical market.(.) We support full patient access to all forms of natural cannabis medicines, including the raw cannabis plant."
Source: www.cannabis-med.org
( Globe and Mail of 9 July 2005, www.medicalmarihuana.ca/phytocan/)
