Pot-based prescription drug could receive FDA approval

[RainDog]

2. "derived from cannabis" is really misleading

Sativex isn't "derived from cannabis." IT IS CANNABIS.

It's not a "chemically-similar" prescription drug. IT IS CANNABIS.

there's a post in this forum about Sativex. There's a video excerpt from BBC Horizon that goes to a GW Pharma warehouse in Great Britain that shows how Sativex is made. The process is NO DIFFERENT than the way growers in CA, etc. grow cannabis for dispensaries.

The only diff. is that, like Rick Simpson's cannabis oil, Sativex is suspended in alcohol and reduced to make it more concentrated than cannabis in its vegetative state.

It appears that our news media needs to be more exact in its wording to avoid misconceptions that want to pretend Sativex is anything other than whole-plant cannabis.

The irony, too, is that Sativex is, essentially, the same tinctures that were sold here and used by doctors until cannabis prohibition in the late 1930s. I guess the news media has to pretend it's something else so that the hypocrisy of this issue is obscured somewhat.