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Europe embraces Rx pot
By Becca Evanhoe
bevanhoe@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Soon Amsterdam may not be the only place to find legal marijuana. Europeans might be able to find it at the corner pharmacy in the form of a pot-based painkiller, which awaits release in the United Kingdom later this year.
GW Pharmaceuticals, a British drug company, wants to release the painkiller, called Sativex, in a matter of months. Sativex, made from liquid cannabis extract, contains mainly tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the most powerful compound in marijuana.
Although THC is commonly associated with the "high" feeling
of marijuana, drug-makers claim
Sativex does not make users high.
Sativeve ia also fast-acting. Users spray it under their tongue, where it is absorbed into the bloodstream, then travels to the brain to relieve pain.
After gaining approval in the United Kingdom, drug sales may be extended to all of Europe and Canada through a partnership with Bayer. According to the GW Web site, the company expects to sell the drug in the United States in just two to three years.
The Food and Drug Administration did not comment publicly on the matter.
The news may be a victory for sufferers of multiple sclerosis, the drug's first target recipients.
However, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society is still skeptical of the results. The drug appears to have significant benefits for patients, but researchers are not sure if the positive effects are real or perceived.
The largest opposition has to do with the unclear but strengthening tie between marijuana use and increased risk of developing schizophrenia. Research affirms that marijuana use seems to trigger schizophrenic symptoms, or aggravate existing symptoms.
The latest British study, completed in 2002, shows that pot smokers are twice as likely to develop schizophrenia as others.
Edited by Louise Stauffer
Interstate shooting reported
The Associated Press
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ohio — A van and a Mercedes were shot minutes apart yesterday on an interstate in a region where a series of 21 sniper shootings have occurred, investigators said.
The gunfire seems consistent with the sniper shootings along Interstate 270 south of Columbus, based on initial evidence, Franklin County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Steve Martin.
No injuries were reported in yesterday's shootings, which happened about 11:30 a.m. on Interstate 71 near Jeffersonville, about 40 miles southwest of Columbus, said Jerri Redfern, a dispatcher with the State Highway Patrol.
He stopped short of linking the two shootings to the serial gunfire.
One person has died in the serial shootings, which have targeted vehicles, schools and homes since May.
Authorities were looking for a dark sports car that may have been connected to the gunfire.
Martin said the shots were fired from two overpasses about one mile apart.
Witnesses said they saw a white man in his 30s or 40s and a small, dark-colored vehicle on the overpasses. Authorities have said some shots in the previous cases came from overpasses.
At the Flying J travel plaza about a mile from the shootings, a bullet hole was visible in the hood of the Mercedes.
After being questioned by an investigator, a man walked back to his car, saying, "I got shot at." He declined to answer questions.
The Fayette County Sheriff's office identified the Mercedes driver as Douglas Berry of Mansfield, and a sheriff's report identified the van driver as Cheryl Shreyer of Baltimore, Ohio. Neither could be reached for comment yesterday.
Authorities had taken two juveniles with a pellet gun into custody after yesterday's shootings, but ultimately determined they were not connected to the crimes, State Highway Patrol Lt. Rick Fambro said.
The youths were in a car matching the witnesses' description, he added.
One lane of I-71 was closed for part of the afternoon as police searched the area of yesterday's shootings.
Officers were seen examining a van parked at a gas station off 1-71 and a car parked on the highway shoulder about two miles away.
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