Medical Cannabis Conference - Czech in year one

Medical Cannabis Conference - Czech in year one

Medical Cannabis Conference – Česko v roce jednaExpert conference on "Medical cannabis and its application in practice" will take place on 4 to 7 March in Prague.

Therapeutic cannabis after many, many years made his way onto the shelves of Czech pharmacies, but the battle is far from. Despite the global trend, making maximum use of medicinal substances in cannabis plants and cannabis decriminalization ever remains in Czech companies are very strong views conservative approach: doctors are afraid to prescribe cannabis, even if they wanted to know how. We lack a comparative study, practical training and experience mainly from abroad. And the elimination of these barriers is the primary objective of Medical Cannabis Conference, we talked about with Zábranský, director of ResAd, which co-organized the conference.

  MUDr. Tomáš Zábranský, ředitel společnosti ResAd, pořadatele konference Vladimir 518, rapper PharmDr. Zdeněk Blahuta, ředitel Státního ústavu pro kontrolu léčiv

Why did you get the idea to organize this conference?

I wore in her head for a long time - cannabis preparations and it is one of the most promising topics of current medical research, and their importance continues to grow, with both better and better understand the crucial role that endocannabinoid system plays a systemic, cellular and subcellular level. In 2013, succeeded by then in our treatment of illegal cannabis - thanks zaťatosti people gathered around a petition for medical cannabis in 2011, and thanks to the support of enlightened academics (of which it is necessary to mention the former Dean of the 1st Faculty of Medicine and today Rector Tomas winter , former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine in Olomouc Zdenek Kolar, head of the Czech Medical Society of Jan Evangelista, Blahoš professor and president of the Czech Medical Academy prof. Richard Rokyta) and politicians (especially the then Leader of the House Mirka Nemcova, deputy Pavel Bem, but also the CSSD Senator Professor Jan Žaloudík and others).

Cannabis is therefore in the Czech Republic had begun two years legal, but it broke in two because of the tradition about him general public or professional community in our country and throughout the EU does not know enough and opinions on it vary from blasé contempt and ignorant denial of its therapeutic effects (of which he was Champion notably former minister of Health Leoš Heger) to the uncritical deification of cannabis as a sort of "panacea." Those who really cannabis and cannabinoids know enough scientifically obtained information and know how to critically evaluate the time being desperately short. The conference is one of the means to fix this, and I hope it will be a kind of ceremonial start of continuous, structured and systematic process in this area.

 

Can you tell us briefly describe how the program will look like?

The first day will be a kind of summary of recent developments in terms of return and hemp products from it into the official medicine in different countries and regions of the world, and in the broader context will discuss the role of medicines, which are also controlled by the UN Convention as called. "Drugs" - ie opiates, stimulants series, benzodiazepines, as well as other substances.

The second and third days will address primarily the intersection between science and practice of medicine: the plenary sessions will recite theory treatment of cannabis and various preparations of it, its general principles, avoiding side effects etc. The workshops will Nurses and doctors of different specializations who have treatment for the use of cannabis and cannabinoids years of practical experience, to train their counterparts who do not have such experience and would like this treatment to their patients to provide. We expect mainly with Czech zdravoitníky, but we have already entered doctors and healthcare professionals also from Poland, Slovakia, Austria, Spain and elsewhere. Instructors will be from Israel, USA, Canada and the Netherlands.
The fourth day will have an eminently scientific and classical format scientific conference, which will try to summarize the current state of research cannabis, cannabinoids, cannabinoid receptors and their role in maintaining the health and quality of life primarily in humans, but we'll deal with even basic laboratory research, animal experiments, psychological tests, negative side effects of cannabinoids and other topics. The conference will guru of this field of research, Jeen the most influential scientists of history and very likely a Nobel laureate in biochemistry, Professor Raphael Mechoulam, and especially his lectures (will have just two) will undoubtedly excellent - a breakthrough. We also have other big names - after all, look at the web www.medical-cannabis-conference.com.

 

For whom is actually determined what is the basic target group?

Politicians with powers in the field of public health and health legislation. Broad medical and healthcare community. The potential of contemporary patients and representatives of organizations dedicated to protecting their rights.

 

I'm a doctor, obvoďák, head nurse at the hospital. Why should I log in to the conference?

Your motivation to attend the conference should be (except rather symbolic conference fees) on the one hand the fact that for participation in the conference will be able to earn credits that you need to fulfill the conditions of the lifelong education of professionals, but especially the effort to learn something about the treatment, after which you your patients for years unsuccessfully require and which is now finally legally and soon perhaps even economically feasible.


Who will be the keynote speakers at the conference? And why they should be for the introduction of therapeutic cannabis in the Czech Republic important?

I've already talked about Professor Mechoulamovi. Chief of the scientific committee of the conference is one of the most cited Czech scientists, discoverer "of the human cannabinoid" anandamide, a substance that resembles and acts like THC, but the body it produces itself, for example, will lecture Professor Alexandra Šulcová, Czech legend neuropsychoofarmakologie, and two other members of her team, Professor Uri Kramer, who bnude report on the just-completed clinical trial, treatment with cannabis childhood epilepsy, and many others. I will not reveal everything but - look at the station's website, the information will "run" gradually.

 

Therapeutic Cannabis has a lot of vocal opponents but also significant supporters. You can also appoint some of the VIP who konfrenci support?

There are a number of - in the first place is that the Minister of Health Svatopluk Nemecek, under whose auspices the conference is taking place. Of those international, it is necessary former UN chief Koffi Annan, expreziden Poland Alexander Kwasniwski, exprezidentka Swiss Federation Ruth Freifussová, UN Special Envoy for HIV in Eastern Europe and Central Asia Michel Kazatchkine, American ex-minister of foreign George Shultz, býcalý NATO chief, Javier Solana, Portuguese President Sampaio, Brazilian Henrique Cardoso expreziden Fernado, billionaire and philanthropist Richard Branson ... should I continue? As I said - Look at the web, we are not going to gradually discover ...

 

The conference will only lectures or practical demonstrations?
Workshops are practical definition and include case studies, so yes.

 

What are your relations with hemp activists? It is also a conference for them?

Positive. I am, moreover, among others. Chairman of the Board of the patient League footballs, and they are activists who are trying to access cannabis treated patients. The vast majority of cannabis activists appreciate, albeit with them and their views may not always agree, and they got me for it then do not like - but I am a doctor, and the system "when something much wish and convince about myself, I do not need to know more" I simply can not accept. A conference is for them - some even on it will speak, and the others will surely have something to learn. Finally, it is about the establishment of the International Union of cannabis patients, which will be a platform that will be tasked to defend the rights of patients to international land - and if we succeed, I might consider for a successful conference, even if it is already on her otherwise ... nothing happened. But it happens responsible for it.

And then there is one more variety - but they are not activists ... These are crooks who on the web and in retail stores offer a "miracle hemp products" and tyjí of human misery. They proudly call themselves businessmen, but they're fixer. So the most positive attitude and I would like contrast sent to rest behind a thick wall - but since it is the police authorities and consumer protection, not me.

 

Why is today, long after the legalization of therapeutic cannabis is still almost impossible to buy in pharmacies cure for Parkinson's disease, for example? And as you see it in time - where to go?

Mainly because the minister, who was in office at a time when the whole process started, the whole thing of no obvious reasons strongly wished and worked his entire apparatus so that the adoption of a law to legalize cannabis treatment prevented - and when it failed, leaving behind at least factually inaccurate, formally meaningless and in at least two cases, even illegal decrees and regulations, the whole process extremely complicated and cleaning stretches actually have. I firmly believe that Mr. Heger, Dr someone somewhere once added to the debit, although he otherwise do not want anything bad.

 

Which one do from the beginning of their efforts on medical cannabis biggest obstacles? We can say that we are now well on the way?

The biggest problem was (and still is in some cases) the destructive ignorance coupled with the arrogance of those who are supposed to serve the people and their country, but are abusing their power (albeit sebebezvýznamnější) status for their own low targets and / or healing the complexes and bolístek.
More generally, a less bitter: the biggest problem is always ignorance and disinterest. For now, however it medical cannabis in this country in luck, because in politics and in medicine always attracted a lot of people who understand what their responsibilities and - I'm not afraid of the word - mission. So yes - from the moment I called the boss Chamber of Deputies with the question "What can I do it," we are on track. It was August 17, 2011 and has nearly beat her family because danger that it could not depart for two years planned holiday - but I managed. And since we are with the treatment on track, even though it is full of potholes, boulders and landmines out there that p had left behind people who do not want the whole thing, so everything goes a bit slower than we would have wished many a sick than he deserved .

 

What is the aim of the conference? When you feel that you've done a good job?

The aim is to contribute to the effort to get cannabis sufficiently in Czech hospitals and pharmacies so that it is available to all who can demonstrably improve health. We also want to contribute to the ongoing debate about whether certain provisions of international treaties that affect effective drugs, not more than 60 years after its inception counterproductive and should be changed in accordance with new knowledge in many fields. And last but not least, we want to restart research cannabis and cannabinoids in the Czech Republic, which in this area was still in the late 50s of the last century world leader.

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Pictures:
1) MD. Tomáš Zábranský, CEO ResAd, conference organizer
2) Vladimir 518, rapper
3) PharmDr. Zdeněk Blahuta, director of the State Institute for Drug Control

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