This is the first time that Nicolas Authier has signed a platform.
The professor of pharmacology wants to challenge: he is not chairman of the Scientific Committee on medical cannabis at the Medicines Agency to “make illusions”.
But so that the experimentation for the sick begins well in January.
What is your fear?
NICOLAS AUTHIER
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That a new postponement does not freeze the project!
The decree of application, essential to determine what will be prescribed to patients, is not published.
An arbitration at 0 euros of financing was made.
Zero!
Anger and despair are felt in our patients.
Should we continue to let them hope?
Doctors are not there to act as political backers, but to get things done.
This experimentation must take place, with the appropriate means.
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Who is she talking to ?
For patients with multiple sclerosis, severe muscular disorders, epilepsy… Medical cannabis does not treat whims, but ailments not relieved by traditional medicine.
These are people in a therapeutic stalemate.
The two-year experiment opens up 3000 places.
It is the doctor who prescribes, the pharmacist who delivers.
We are talking about medicine, not a joint smoke!
How does cannabis benefit these patients?
Some substances interact with the pain transmission system.
They relieve it or modify its perception.
Nobody says it's miraculous.
But if it can help 20 to 30% of patients, why deny it?
Some can resume a social life, rework ...
Its detractors fear a path marked out for the legalization of cannabis ...
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