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New Battlefields In The Pot War

URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n1057/a04.html
Newshawk: _Humphrey Ploughjogger_ (aoldb://mail/write/www.MassCann.org)
Pubdate: Fri, 01 Jul 2005
Source: Cohasset Mariner (MA)
Copyright: 2005 Cohasset Mariner
Contact: cohasset@cnc.com
Website: http://www2.townonline.com/cohasset/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/3538
Author: Tom Henshaw
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Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/topics/Sativex (Sativex)

           

                                                                                                                                                                       

hoping that the jury will see that Dr.  Fry was acting as a physician," said their attorney, Laurence Lichter, But that's not all, as the TV pitchmen like to say.  On the same page in USA Today was a report that Canadians now have access to a new drug called Sativex, which is derived from the marijuana plant and which you spray in your mouth rather than smoke.

Sativex is expensive, $124.95 a vial, which provides 51 squirts, and that averages out to $2.44 a squirt.  Not that I know anything about it personally, but if you could get a quality toke for $2.44 or less before May 17, 1964, the dealer wasn't advertising.

Of course, Sativex is unauthorized in the United States and will be for years but I'm sure it won't be long before a brisk trade has developed between Niagara Falls, Ont., and Niagara Falls, N.Y.  among grandsons of men who did it in the 1920s.

But that's still not all, as the TV pitchmen still like to say.  Chronic Candy of Corona, Calif., is marketing hemp-flavored lollypops, with two of them sold in a "nickel bag," and the guarantee that "Every lick is like taking a hit." You don't have to be a pothead to understand the meaning of "hemp" and a "nickel bag" and a "hit."

"The last thing we need is for kids to be acquiring a taste for a drug that's illegal," says Michigan State Rep.  Dudley Spade, who has proposed a state ban on candy that contains pot-flavoring.

"There's nothing in it to get you high," says Tony Van Pelt, the president of Chronic Candy, who imports them from Europe.  "My mom thinks she gets a buzz from it.  I don't have the heart to tell her it's just the sugar."