Canada: Medical marijuana hits stock market
It’s not every company that heralds its public debut with Moses Znaimer, the co-founder of CityTV, on one side and a bag of marijuana from the Canadian government on the other.
But that’s exactly how Cannasat Therapeutics Inc. did it yesterday.
Cannasat bills itself as one of a handful of companies in the world that is researching and developing medicines derived from cannabis plants.
Users say the drug — possession of which is technically illegal — works wonders in alleviating pain, insomnia, loss of appetite, often more effectively than doctor-prescribed pharmaceuticals, and with fewer side effects.
About 1,100 people have registered for the government program to date, but that’s believed to be a tiny fraction of medical marijuana users.
“We’re still just used to thinking of marijuana as an illicit drug. It’s been really robbed of its medical benefits,” said Sara Lee Irwin, Cannasat’s director of public relations.
ALL RIGHT!!!
WHERE’S MINE!?!
Can’t wait to see how this fits into NAFTA. Lets see how “free trade-centric” the GOP is on this one!!
I’ve been a medical marijuana user for YEARS now, here in the UK, and getting any sort of professional/medical backing takes *serious* effort.
All the doctors are paranoid about rebuttals if they recommend it and, of course, can’t officially recommend it anyway.
For anyone in the UK who does use MM there’s a small handful of private doctors (for which you have to pay) who’ll write you a letter saying, “Dude needs weed!”, which while carrying no legal president does often get the cops off your back if you smell like Amsterdam…. 🙂
-Dx