New Cannabis Based Menu for Chao Phraya Hospital patients (service being rolled out to other hospitals too)
"This cannabis special menu is bringing different parts of the cannabis plant to use with leaves to cook as ingredients in food" #cannabis #Thailand

Whilst patients in the UK are still being denied with almost no progress with #NHS Amazing to see how much progress is being made with #cannabis as #medicine in #Thailand is the same 2 year period: https://t.co/exZsNSH8uk
A Thread: 1/10 #Thailand allowed #cannabis #medicine in Jan 2019, 2 months after the UK.
NOW:
Is approved for 160+ conditions (everyone!)
Village doctors, clinics and hospitals can supply approved products or grow and produce their own, from nearly 100 approved formulas
2/10 - Average monthly prescription cost is £20-£30.
Educational programs started for the Medical Profession within 3 months, for many others at 6 months and school kids after a year. (Google Dr Ganja - see photo)
3/10 - Shortly they will launch a new policy for any individual or collectives to grow #cannabis for #medicine for themselves and any surplus material can be sold to the government for use in centralised production.
4/10 - The first policy decision was to forbid any foreign investment in #cannabis as #medicine or imports for at least 5 years and focus on building it up locally.
5/10 - #Thailand isn't keen on the Pharma industry having strong values around - If nature can provide, where's the sense/benefit in turning it into a pharmaceutical? Herbal Medicines are very common and very well understood.
6/10 - Formulas are taken from Traditional Thai medicines which had all references to #cannabis removed in 1961. The Monks have copies and have written it back in. Each formula contains other herbal ingredients and are made for various ailments or diseases - 100s of years ago!
7/10 - Traditional Thai medicine includes herbal medicine, bodywork practices & spiritual healing & pre-dates Ayurvedic. It is taught alongside all Medicine. The National Institute of Thai Traditional Medicine is a department within the Ministry of Public Health.
8/10 - Many village doctors never stopped producing original formula medicines for their village residents & help residents produce their own. Since there is deep respect and reverence for age and experience, acceptance by the entire Medical Profession was almost immediate.
9/10 - in contrast to the doubts & fears #UK face it's like the 50yr global ban was an exceptional & unwelcome change that they had to accept at the time due to needing #us military support - and now, finally, things can return to normal again.
10/10 - The rest of the world who are travelling very slowly and carefully down this road had better think on and IMO could benefit from considering this approach to the future of the Global cannabis industry

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this simple, counter narrative fact keeps cropping up all over the world.

hospital and ICU utilization has been and remains low this year.

it's terribly curious that so few of these monitoring tools provide historical baselines.

getting them is like pulling teeth.


we might think of this as an oversight until you see stuff like this:

this woman was arrested for filming and sharing the fact that their are empty hospitals in the UK.

that's full blown soviet. what possible honest purpose does that

this is the action of a police state and a propaganda ministry, not a well intentioned government and a public heath agency.

"we cannot let people see the truth for fear they might base their actions on real facts" is not much of a mantra for just governance.


90% full ICU sounds scary until you realize that 90-100% full is normal in flu season.

staffed ICU beds are expensive to leave empty. it's like flying with 15% of the plane empty. hospitals don't do that.

and all US hospitals are mandated to be able to flex to 120% ICU.

the US is currently at historically low ICU utilization for this time of year.

61% is "you're all going to go out of business" territory as is 66% full hospital use.

can you blame them for mining CARES act money? they'll die without it.
🚨Important changes to lockdown/self-isolation regulations from 5pm

The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (All Tiers and Self-Isolation) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021

£800 'house party' FPN & police can now access track & trace data

https://t.co/k9XCpVsXhC


“Large gathering offence”

As trailed by Home Secretary last week there is now a fixed penalty notice of £800 (or £400 if you pay within 14 days) for participating in an gathering of over 15 people in a private residence


Fixed Penalty Notices double for each subsequent “large gathering offence” up to £6,400

Compare:
- Ordinary fixed penalty notice is £200 or £100 if paid in 14 days
- Holding or being involved in the holding of a gathering of over 30 people is £10,000


Second big change:

Since September has been a legal requirement to sell-isolate if you test positive/notified by Track & Trace of exposure to someone else who tested positive

Police can now be given access to NHS Track & Trace data if for the purpose of enforcement/prosecution


This will make it easier for police to enforce people breaking self-isolation rules. Currently there has been practically no enforcement.

Data says only a small proportion of people meant to be self-isolating are fully doing so.

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