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Israel Develops World’S First Medical Marijuana Inhaler


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Fifty years ago, Israeli Professor Raphael Mechoulam was a maverick in his field when he fought for funding to conduct some of the earliest trials of medical marijuana.

Today, pharmaceutical cannabis has become a hot topic, thanks in no small part to a new Israeli innovator who has taken up the cause and is helping re-imagine how marijuana is dosed.

Perry Davidson is an entrepreneur who helped launch the Israeli Health Ministry’s Medical Cannabis Program. Like Mechoulam, he said his early efforts at marijuana advocacy were met with skepticism.

“As early as the 1990s, cannabis has been shown to alleviate the symptoms of cancer treatments on young children,” Davidson said in a recent interview. “But it was discontinued, due to the negative associations it elicited. And this is a shame that I thought needed to be rectified.”

One of the main stumbling blocks with pot, Davidson noted, was that as a botanical it was difficult to deliver a calibrated dosage. This, coupled with marijuana’s reputation as an illicit drug, made cannabis treatment a tough sell.

To solve that problem and make marijuana more marketable, Davidson and his team at Syqe Medical have developed a pocket-sized inhaler that allows dosage to be monitored by both physician and patient.

First, though, the Syqe team had to overcome some challenges, including how to develop a mechanism to deliver a uniform dosage in the vapors.
The regulator developed by Syqe “is one of the keys to dosage precision and low variability in the bloodstream between patients,” Davidson explained. “These technologies had to be developed in-house, particularly since the challenge of metered-dose delivery of raw botanicals has rarely been undertaken.”

Despite other media reports, the goal is not to prevent the person from getting high, but rather to allow marijuana to be carefully dosed like other drugs, making it a more viable option for pharmaceutical usage.

Instead, Davidson said his first-of-its-kind inhaleer with allow patient and doctor “with 100-microgram increments, to have control over the level of psychoactivity and symptom relief, allowing them to find the optimum balance.”

 

http://www.jspacenews.com/israel-develops-worlds-first-medical-marijuana-inhaler/

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