Reply #9: Nothing to do with Cipro, but check this out [View All]

[Mandate My Ass]

http://www.pot-tv.net/shows/1994.html

Another patent coup for Bayer plus it gives one a whole new perspective on Ashcroft's jihad against medical marijuana....


By Stephen Foley
The Independent (UK)

Geoffrey Guy has a conviction: possession of cannabis, with intent to supply. Not a criminal conviction, of course, since Dr Guy is an upstanding businessman and pillar of the community in Dorset. Just an evangelical belief that cannabis has an array of medical benefits and that his own painkiller, developed from the plant, will be available on the National Health within months.

He is the G in GW Pharmaceuticals, its founder, executive chairman, and cheerleader-in-chief. He saw that the Home Office was sympathetic to multiple sclerosis sufferers who had long argued cannabis had medical benefits, but that outright legalisation was a non-starter. So he asked for a license to grow the plant and, barely five years later, GW is tantalisingly close to launching its under-the-tongue spray, called Sativex.

Biopirates! Bayer and GW Merger...
-one step closer to a pot monopoly?

21 May 2003 - GW and Bayer Announce Marketing Agreement on Pioneering New Cannabis-based Treatment

GW Pharmaceuticals and Bayer AG have entered into an exclusive marketing agreement for GW’s cannabis-based medicinal extract product, to be marketed under the Sativex® brand name.

Bayer has obtained exclusive rights to market Sativex in the UK. In addition, Bayer has the option for a limited period of time to negotiate the marketing rights in other countries in European Union and selected other countries around the world.

They are teaming up to provide a "medically acceptable cannabis-derived product" for the treatment of MS and severe neuropathic pain. The product is a whole plant medicinal cannabis extract containing THC, or, as GW puts it, "tetranabinex" and CBD, or according to GW, "Nabidiolex" as its principal components. The medicine is administered by means of a spray into the mouth.