27/02/2008 00:00:00
Netherlands: Scientists Set up Netherlands Association for Medicinal
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Researchers have set up the Netherlands Association for Legal Cannabis
and its Substances as Medication (NCSM). NCSM wishes to improve and
distribute scientific knowledge relating to medicinal uses of cannabis.
Doctors and pharmacists have a very unclear idea of the medicinal uses
of cannabis, the founders explained. "They have many questions that are
not covered during their training," said researcher Arno Hazekamp of
Leiden University, who is the spokesman for the new foundation.
The executive committee includes a pharmacist, a biological scientist
and a criminologist. Chairman of the Supervisory Board is Rob Verpoorte,
professor of pharmacognosis at Leiden University.
The establishment of the NCSM was prompted by Health Minister Ab Klink's
decision to give science and industry the freedom to market a registered
medicine for a period of five years. As its first act, the foundation
wishes to launch a website with all the knowledge that is currently
available.
http://www.nisnews.nl/public/280208_4.htm
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http://www.ukcia.org/news/shownewsarticle.php?articleid=13314
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