No Smoking Zone

[bobandtorey]

Time, like, flies, man. Seattle-based Medical Marijuana Delivery Systems has acquired the U.S. patent rights to the “Medical Marijuana Patch” that delivers the pertinent substance of medical marijuana through the skin, to be marketed under the trademarked name “Tetracan” in medical marijuana dispensaries by year’s end. Pot policy varies, meanwhile. In various degrees, marijuana for medical use is legal in 15 states and the District of Columbia.

 

The company reasons it can avoid “black-market product proliferation and non-taxable profiteering” because there’s no smoking of anything. Patch inventor Walter Cristobal, a member of the Santa Ana Pueblo Indian tribe in New Mexico, is already at work on “new delivery systems” like cream, gels and oils. But use of the word “marijuana” is now a no-no.

 

“The industry needs to shed the word ‘marijuana’ and focus on the holistic, therapeutic pain relief benefits,” says spokesman Jim Alekson.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/22/inside-the-beltway-683740643/