I'm UK based, and our only medical marijuana programme is the use of the synthetic variants such as Marinol, which doesn't do anywhere near as good a job of relieving pain. It's a Class-B drug here, so it's not technically illegal to prescibe it as a doctor as it does have medicinal value, but I imagine there are other regulatory roadblocks to doing that. Which is a shame, because I know people who have tried Marinol for their pain and found it wanting, but when introduced to a vaporiser and some good bud they can get a few hours relief. When you can see a cancer patient smile because they've attenuated their pain without having to reach for the opiates, it just beggars belief that the UK government won't try something like the approach they use in some US states. Hell, the UK government even admits they grow some good shit for research purposes.
Just read a little more. Wasn't aware that simcard technology isn't being used in these phones. That certainly makes it difficult to remove the network lock. Damn, you guys have it bad over there for phones. You get screwed on prices, coverage, and now services it seems.
I was under the impression that if handsets from competing networks used the same standard, then technically their handsets should interoperate between the networks. But then that's over here in the uk, where we only have one 3G standard. From what I can see, US citizens get CDMA (which is only 2.5G), CDMA2000, and UMTS, which is the standard we use over here I think.
I work in mobile phone repair, and I've got an unlocked 3G phone to work on a 3G network other than it's parent company. What technical issues prevent you guys from doing it?
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I'm UK based, and our only medical marijuana programme is the use of the synthetic variants such as Marinol, which doesn't do anywhere near as good a job of relieving pain. It's a Class-B drug here, so it's not technically illegal to prescibe it as a doctor as it does have medicinal value, but I imagine there are other regulatory roadblocks to doing that. Which is a shame, because I know people who have tried Marinol for their pain and found it wanting, but when introduced to a vaporiser and some good bud they can get a few hours relief. When you can see a cancer patient smile because they've attenuated their pain without having to reach for the opiates, it just beggars belief that the UK government won't try something like the approach they use in some US states. Hell, the UK government even admits they grow some good shit for research purposes.
Just read a little more. Wasn't aware that simcard technology isn't being used in these phones. That certainly makes it difficult to remove the network lock. Damn, you guys have it bad over there for phones. You get screwed on prices, coverage, and now services it seems.
I was under the impression that if handsets from competing networks used the same standard, then technically their handsets should interoperate between the networks. But then that's over here in the uk, where we only have one 3G standard. From what I can see, US citizens get CDMA (which is only 2.5G), CDMA2000, and UMTS, which is the standard we use over here I think. I work in mobile phone repair, and I've got an unlocked 3G phone to work on a 3G network other than it's parent company. What technical issues prevent you guys from doing it?