Tue Jan 30, 11:11 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - Human trials of an experimental treatment for obesity derived from cannabis, which is commonly associated with stimulating hunger, are scheduled to begin in the second half of this year, Britain's GW Pharmaceuticals Plc announced Tuesday.
Several other companies, such as Sanofi-Aventis, which is investigating Acomplia, are working on new drugs that will switch off the brain circuits that make people hungry when they smoke cannabis.
GW Pharma, however, says it has derived a treatment from cannabis that could help suppress hunger. "The cannabis plant has 70 different cannabinoids in it and each has a different affect on the body," GW Managing Director Justin Gover told Reuters in a telephone interview.
"Some can stimulate your appetite, and some in the same plant can suppress your appetite. It is amazing both scientifically and commercially," he said.
Drugs have to pass three stages of tests in humans before being eligible for approval by regulators in a process that takes many years.
Sanofi-Aventis' Acomplia, which it believes can achieve $3 billion in annual sales, is already on sale in Europe and it is waiting for a U.S. regulatory decision in April.
Several other big drug companies also already have similar products to Acomplia in clinical trials.
GW is best known for developing Sativex, a treatment derived from cannabis that fights spasticity in multiple sclerosis patients. Sativex, an under-the-tongue spray, has been approved in Canada, but has hit delays with regulators in Britain.
GW submitted Sativex for assessment by several European regulators in September, and hopes to secure approval for the UK, Denmark, Spain and the Netherlands in the second half of this year at the earliest, the company said on Tuesday.
GW's marijuana plants are grown indoors in a secret location in Southern England.
TLDR- Some London hippies figured out smoking a certain type of weed makes you not want to eat.
In other words if you're a fat fuck you need to smoke weed errday.
IpseDixitTreat me like a pirateAnd give me that bootyRegistered Userregular
edited January 2007
Sixteen different brands of tuna,
Chicken of the Sea or Big Kahuna
Packed in oil, packed in water,
dolphin friendly, dolphin slaughtered
And oh God, what about the bread?
Should I get white or wheat instead?
Or... rye! Rye's the best I've tasted
Rye is best when ever you're wasted!
Too high for the supermarket,
too high for the grocery store
too high for the supermarket
ain't gonna shop like this no more
Posts
just ruin his life why don't ya
it a go done, give me the music make me rock in the dance
ITS LIKE RAAAAAEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAIN
gives me
the fucking
munchies
It's like a free ride when you've already paid.
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The good advice, that ya just didn't take.
But no don't you see he won't be fat! So he'll look GOOD crossdressing.
i thought it was "free ride when you're already there"
let me eat you you are so delicious
aw nawm nawm nawm nawm
Well that's what the lyric site said.
oh hello
what is this
a cheesecake?
Chicken of the Sea or Big Kahuna
Packed in oil, packed in water,
dolphin friendly, dolphin slaughtered
And oh God, what about the bread?
Should I get white or wheat instead?
Or... rye! Rye's the best I've tasted
Rye is best when ever you're wasted!
Too high for the supermarket,
too high for the grocery store
too high for the supermarket
ain't gonna shop like this no more
well, if the internet said it...
Is this really true? It is a popular rumor but I have not heard that it's actually true.
It is? Then what... what am I going to do with the 100 dutchies I just ordered?
Chilli con Carne!