University to launch cannabis medicine in 5 years

By Mongkhonchaowarat Tangmangmee 
The Nation

 

A researcher at Naresuan University analyses cannabis supplied by the police, the first step on the road to producing effective medicines and possibly even a pain-killing bandage.

 

Naresuan University (NU) plans to begin introducing high-quality cannabis-derived medicines in about five years. 

 

 

“Our research has begun,” said Associate Professor Dr Kornkanok Ingkaninan, who teaches pharmaceutical chemistry at NU. 

 

Kanchana Ngourungsi, the school’s president, said it was granted permission last year to possess cannabis for research, though it is barred from cultivating the plant. 

 

NU instead receives bricks of marijuana from the Royal Thai Police Narcotics Suppression Bureau. 

 

“We have combined resources from several different faculties with an eye to developing medicines from cannabis as well as hemp,” Kanchana said, the latter being a variety of marijuana that doesn’t contain the psychoactive element THC (tetrahydrocannabinol). 

 

 

The government recently legalised medical marijuana, persuaded that it is beneficial in treating certain kinds of ailments. 

 

Associate Professor Jarupa Viyoch, dean of NU’s Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science, said a series of research studies had commenced. 

 

“All of them were approved by the Government Pharmaceutical Organisation,” she said. 

 

Among other goals, the researchers are looking for a pain-killing extract for sublingual use (below the tongue) and a treatment for abnormal skin conditions and hope to develop a hemp-based gauze that would heal as well as bind wounds.

 

“We’re currently focusing on how best to analyse and separate cannabinoids as well as how to ensure the extracts have appropriate amounts of THC and CBD [cannabidiol],” Dr Jarupa said. 

 

She believes the research will lead to prototype pharmaceutical materials “soon”. 

 

“Then we’ll begin the process of proving the efficiency and safety of the products,” she said. 

 

In five years, NU will be able to provide doctors and hospitals with high-quality cannabis-based medicines, she predicted.

 

 

She believes the research will lead to prototype pharmaceutical materials “soon”. 

 

“Then we’ll begin the process of proving the efficiency and safety of the products,” she said. 

 

In five years, NU will be able to provide doctors and hospitals with high-quality cannabis-based medicines, she predicted.

 

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cannabis was legal in thailand for centuries

 

guess who pushed to make it illegal ?

 

wood industry & big pharma

 

now thailand needs 5 years to get a product ?

 

they want to re-invent the wheel, over and over again

 

did thailand already not find a cure for cancer, hiv, aids, .... ?

 

or do they mean, read a study in an english paper and copy the results and call it their own ?

uh, hello? Pretty sure other countries have done the research and have the products.

Next up: Thailand to invent aspirin

Looks like a real high tech operation with the tin foil on the bottles.

Why not simply eat the plant ?

That's usually how healing plants work ... 

4 minutes ago, brain150 said:

Why not simply eat the plant ?

That's usually how healing plants work ... 

or smoke it

It's available in many forms for medicinal purposes in many countries predominately in the forms of CBD & CBG to name a couple so Thailand researchers can simply copy what is out there already.

5 hours ago, curtklay said:

Looks like a real high tech operation with the tin foil on the bottles.

They stopped making tin foil before you and I were born. Its aluminum foil. 

3 minutes ago, featography said:

They stopped making tin foil before you and I were born. Its aluminum foil. 

 

They stopped making tin foil before you and I were born. Its aluminum foil. 

Yeah the Cornish tin miners all lost their job and the conspiracy theorists their best hat [emoji39]

 

Although I am not opposed to marijuana use, I have been hearing for years about its medicinal benefits without having seen any research to support it.  I always supposed that the claim of medicinal benefit was just a strategic step toward its eventual legalization, as indeed it has proved to be in several states of the US so far.

 

Is there any real basis for such claims?