CANNABIS IN A JAB AND A SPRAY ON WAY

SCIENTISTS have invented a technique for making cannabis soluble so that it
can be used in sprays or injections, which would remove a key objection to
its use as a medicine, writes Chris Gray.

The team at Aberdeen University believes the breakthrough could lead to the
drug being available on Britain's NHS within five years. GPs have opposed
the drug's medicinal use because it had to be smoked, which carries a risk
of cancer, or eaten, which is unreliable.

Soluble cannabis could be administered to patients in sprays, aerosols or
injections.

Professor Roger Pertwee, who has jointly developed and patented the new
cannabis compound said it still produced a "high" in users, but work was
continuing on removing that without also stopping the drug's pain-relieving
qualities.