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[Devil Soul]

Shehryar Afridi’s charas, medicines comment leads to quite a buzz

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ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Narcotics Control Shehryar Afridi generated a buzz on social media Sunday when he said the government was planning to open a factory in Tirah in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa that would make medicines from charas and hashish.

The video making rounds on social media features Afridi speaking at a rally where he says the government had started working on the Tirah factory plan to turns hashish into medicine. "PM Imran wishes for a factory to be opened in Tirah that turns chars into medicines," he says, according to Geo News.

"Every year, hashish and opium are burned in large quantities. Other countries make use of these (opium and hashish) to make medicines," he said, adding that work on the factory had started and that it would be instrumental in "changing people's lives".

Afridi took to Twitter to clarify that the factory would turn "seized drugs" into medicines. "This video is viral on social media with misleading comments by opponents," he tweeted. "I was telling my constituents that govt plans to develop factory in tribal areas to develop organic medicines through seized drugs."

Experts said while talking to Geo News that the idea presented by Shehryar Afridi is not feasible at all. They said only India is allowed such manufacturing of medicines, and that too on a very limited scale.
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/60...haras-medicines-comment-leads-to-quite-a-buzz

 

[Devil Soul]

 

[313ghazi]

It's a genuinely great idea. Pakistani's are so backward minded, whereas this is a forward thinking idea.

1. There is a massive market in medical applications for cannabis and opiods (especially cannabis).
2. Western countries are having serious conversations about legalisation of cannabis. The former British MPs have invested in growing cannabis in the UK. There could be HUGE export markets opening up.
3. With the fight against plastics, there is a big scope for Hemp to make a comeback in bags, bioplastics etc.

Grow, export, or even better grow, make products, export products.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...abis-paul-kenward-british-sugar-a8356056.html

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-44197038

https://www.thejakartapost.com/news...aker-suggests-indonesia-export-marijuana.html

For once let us be on the forefront of a economic event, rather than hanging on it's coat-tails.

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/gy4pa7/these-are-the-countries-most-likely-to-legalise-weed-next

 

[Fawadqasim1]

pun aside they are rich sources of natural biochemicals for many legitimate pharmaceutical products.

 

[HAIDER]

It's a genuinely great idea. Pakistani's are so backward minded, whereas this is a forward thinking idea.

1. There is a massive market in medical applications for cannabis and opiods (especially cannabis).
2. Western countries are having serious conversations about legalisation of cannabis. The former British MPs have invested in growing cannabis in the UK. There could be HUGE export markets opening up.
3. With the fight against plastics, there is a big scope for Hemp to make a comeback in bags, bioplastics etc.

Grow, export, or even better grow, make products, export products.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...abis-paul-kenward-british-sugar-a8356056.html

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-44197038

https://www.thejakartapost.com/news...aker-suggests-indonesia-export-marijuana.html

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For once let us be on the forefront of a economic event, rather than hanging on it's coat-tails.

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/gy4pa7/these-are-the-countries-most-likely-to-legalise-weed-next

Use alot in painkillers.

 

[WarKa DaNG]

First of all concern labs and research centres should be built then a factory can be built for production

 

[Verve]

Experts said while talking to Geo News that the idea presented by Shehryar Afridi is not feasible at all. They said only India is allowed such manufacturing of medicines, and that too on a very limited scale.

So who are these experts and who is this authority that "allows" s country to make medicines from captured narcotics?

Geo, experts and India ...

pun aside they are rich sources of natural biochemicals for many legitimate pharmaceutical products.

What this nation needs is a program of microdosing LSD and/or MDMA.

And all politicians and Babus forced to drink Ayahuasca repeatedly over a few weeks, to bring them down to earth and get their demons out!

 

[Syed1.]

World over medicinal component of marijuana is prescribed for people suffering from plethora of issues such as anxiety and ADHD.... in Pakistan the unparh quam is making fun of it.

 

[Moonlight]

World over medicinal component of marijuana is prescribed for people suffering from plethora of issues such as anxiety and ADHD.... in Pakistan the unparh quam is making fun of it.

Fun to fun PMLn & ppp baboons are giving their fatwa too

 

[Verve]

World over medicinal component of marijuana is prescribed for people suffering from plethora of issues such as anxiety and ADHD.... in Pakistan the unparh quam is making fun of it.

We as a nation are already primed to use plant medicines but the R&D is seriously lacking and the way the doctors re trained they only push Pharma down our throats. Hakeems with strong knowledge took it to their graves instead of passing it on.

Government needs to invest in plant medicine R&D. Extracts of many plants/wild fruits/shrooms etc are far more potent than the synthetics with far less side effects in treating those that you've mentioned and many more. Self treatment is a growing industry in West but a nearly dead one in Pakistan because people just can't be bothered to do a bit of research on their own and work out what their bodies need.

I was on morphine based painkillers for 2 weeks but I decided that I will not continue with it so started looking for natural solutions. Now I don't need it anymore after experimenting with various plant extracts. Placebo is a powerful thing in itself but there's growing research on these compounds with strong clinical trials.

Stunted growth can be fixed by many of these, especially powerful natural Nootropics.

 

[TheDarkKnight]

Wow. Who would not want to work in this factory?

 

[Pakistansdefender]

India is one of the countries that grow opium legally and export it to medicine companies and make medicine from it.
It's Pakistanis that have some problem.
Opium is opium, that is used in many medicines and it is very good source of some common diseases. The only downside is that it is addictive and you can make drugs out of it.
If controlled and used in medicine. Then what kind of problem you can have. Very small sections grow poppy in Pakistan but we are sitting at the epicenter of opium. We don't need to grow or import, only the opium caught during smuggling would be enough to produce medicines and stuff.

 

[Ranches]

Seems this Afridi guy has vested interests, remember his nephew involvement.

 

[Asimzranger]

Looks like Pakistan returning to 60s glory

 

[masterchief_mirza]

I don't think seized narcotics can be used for medicinal manufacture because (unless in raw form) they're seized narcotics that likely have impurities. With impurities, they're rendered useless. Nice idea though for a moment.