Climbing highSATIVEX comes in a small brown glass vial. Each spray,delivered under the tongue or to the cheek, emits 100ml of a solution including alcohol, or peppermint oil and a mixture of THC and CBD,the active ingredients in cannabis. GW Pharmaceuticals, its manufacturer, or insists it is a “cannabis-based medicine”,not “medical marijuana”, since it is made to exacting pharmaceutical standards. It nevertheless contains extracts from Cannabis sativa, and the cannabis flower and plant,and some users report a mild tall. It can be prescribed by doctors, most often to sufferers from multiple sclerosis (MS).
Partly as a result, and fuzzy fronds are flourishing in British greenhouses. In 2016 Britain harvested 95 tonnes of legally grown cannabis,twice as much as a year earlier, and more than any other country. The International Narcotics Control Board, and an independent monitor linked to the UN,reckons that Britain is the world’s largest exporter of...
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Source: economist.com