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our idea
Our group has spitballed a load of ideas with each other on one of the first days back as we knew this was going to be a very short project so we needed to make sure that we were on top of everything so we didn't rush last minute. We came up with a few ideas like 'Birds, pints, and footie' where we discuss the English football league, new alcohol laws and regulations and local bird watching. However, we felt as though this idea was too broad and we wouldn't have been able to stick to a news story that would appeal to the younger generation.
Arthritis
Osteoarthritis:
- Arthritis is one of the most common disabilities in the UK roughly affecting 10 million people in the UK.
- It causes your joint to become stiff and swollen.
- The top form of arthritis called osteoarthritis, otherwise known as the wear and tear arthritis.
- However, over time this "wear and tear" name has caused a lot of fear as people believe that because they have either been working or exercising hard and they think that causes arthritis to get worse so they then stop working to try and rest to make their joints feel better, but this only makes the joints feel worse.
- On the other hand, doctors have now realised that the reason arthritis hurts is that it's our own body trying to fix broken cartilage on our joints. (Arthritis Action, 2019)
The symptoms of osteoarthritis:
- tender joints.
- swelling around the joints, especially fingers.
- loss of muscle around the joint.
- joints feel weak / difficulty of gripping.
- reduced movement in the joint.
- Joint Pain. (Arthritis Action, 2019)
This basic information is good for a basic knowledge of what this type of arthritis is caused by. However, osteoarthritis mainly affects the older generation and because our group wants to focus more on the younger generation we need to know what causes their arthritis to sprout and is there any kind of medication to help them.
Medications to help:
- Acetaminophen
- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
- Duloxetine (Cymbalta) (Mayo Clinic Staff, 2019)
- CBD?
After looking into some of the possible medications to help with arthritis I found that most of where I looked did not recommend CBD products as there has not been much research been put into the drug. However, this does not mean that CBD is not a possible medicinal product to use to help arthritis, in fact, animal studies have had some positive signs that it does help with pain relief. suggesting that it could have anti-inflammatory properties, but this is only for animals. There has not been enough research being put into CBD
What is Cannabis?
Cannabis is what's known as a natural drug as it comes from a plant and can come in many different forms such as edibles, smoking, vaping and resin (dabs). However, due to the drug being illegal in the UK it's harder for the people to take the drug in different ways, they normally smoke it whereas in America and Canada they have different options for people who don't like smoking.
On the other hand, with all these different ways of consuming cannabis means that it has different effects on the body. For example, if you were to cook the Cannabis the pro to this way is that you avoid inhaling smoke and causing any damage to your lungs. However, using this method of taking cannabis could have a delayed high meaning it's very easy to overdo and have too many brownies causing you to have a bad time.
What's in cannabis that gets you "high"?
In cannabis, there's what is known as cannabinoids, inside the cannabinoids, there are two main chemical compounds called tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol. The chemical compound that everyone knows more about is THC because this is the compound that would give you that 'stoned' or 'high feeling.
Medical Cannabis in the UK
The UK laws on cannabis
In the UK we have what is known as 'The Misuse of Drugs Act' which was put into use in1971. This act was set in place to help prevent the use of non-medicinal drugs that would potentially hurt you. The law system states that if you try and do any of 4 crimes associated with drugs including unlawful supply, intent to supply, import or export, unlawful production and finally unlawful possession. The way they categorise a drug is that they put them in certain classes. For example, Class A is known for having very hardcore drugs like cocaine, crack, heroin and many more. Each specific class has its own maximum penalties and it tells you what prison time you could potentially get for the specific drug you're caught with.
However in the UK cannabis has moved around these different classes, back in 2004 David Blunkett (Home Secretary at the time) happily approved to vote to reclassify cannabis from a Class B to a Class C drug. This was done so that it would free up time for police time for other more serious drugs. This does seem like a good idea as a lot of people would say when they smoke weed they don't get aggressive and out of control like they do with alcohol. However, being in Class C did not last very long because in 2008 Jacqui Smith decided that it should belong in Class B. She did give a very interesting point in why she decided to move it back, this is because the research she found said that heavy use of the drug could cause schizophrenia and other mental illnesses. This is an interesting point because over the last few years more and more countries are legalising cannabis for recreational use and we are slowly seeing an increase of people suffering from mental illness. Could this be linked? At this moment in time, the research simply is not there, but this could be a possibility.
What is CBD?
Earlier we looked into what is in cannabis that gets you high and what we found was that it was a chemical compound called THC, which is a psychoactive compound which gets you high. However, with CBD it's not psychoactive so it doesn't affect you the same way as THC. CBD can be extracted from hemp plants, however, this is only the case if the plant has less than 0.3% THC. It is possible for CBD to have some really useful health benefits such as seizures, inflammation, pain, psychosis, depression and anxiety. This could be groundbreaking in finding newer and safer medicines, but we soon found out that many professionals and experts can't say it has any benefits as our government won't allow them to. This is really interesting as in some cases CBD does really help people, our group could potentially
There are two very common ways of taking CBD: orally and topical. CBD comes in many different forms like oils, pills, suppositories gels and many more. With ingesting CBD orally shouldn't be any different from taking your normal paracetamol, using pill forms of CBD can also make it easier to monitor dosages as they all have set measurements. Also, one of the main ways of taking CBD is by using oil and placing it under the tongue for a couple of minutes.
In cannabis, there's what is known as cannabinoids, inside the cannabinoids, there are two main chemical compounds called tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol. The chemical compound that everyone knows more about is THC because this is the compound that would give you that 'stoned' or 'high feeling.
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Medical Cannabis in the UK
- There are only very few percentages of people in England that are likely to get a prescription for medical cannabis by smoking the drug.
- Only two conditions in the UK may be allowed medical cannabis.
- Children and adults suffering from severe forms of Epilepsy.
- Adults who have bad nausea caused by chemotherapy.
- However, you are able to purchase CBD oil or hemp oil, but the NHS says you must be careful when purchasing as there's no proof that it will benefit you.
- With THC based medical cannabis there could be potential side effects, such as; decreased appetite, diarrhoea, feeling sick, greater weakness, a behavioural change, dizziness, feeling tired and feeling high.
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NICE
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence are otherwise known as NICE. This organisation specialises in providing advice to improve health and social care for the UK. The reason why Nice is so important is that they want more research to go into medical cannabis. In August 2019 they released an article basically stating that the NHS and the UK government need to put more research into cannabis-based medicinal products.
This small article is full of recent information that has really helped our group develop a story that we can follow on our news channel. We can start asking more questions to experts that put them on the spot as we can reveal why our country is so far behind every other 1st world country. The research should be there for them to look at as the USA, Netherlands and Canada have all legalised cannabis. However, the UK feels the need to delay the research as most of our government are set in their ways and not replying to our questions. This is the truth as recently there was an interview on BBC breakfast saying that many people have written to Borris Johnson as some people have tried every pharmaceutical product and it's not working. However, our Prime Minister has not been replying to us and ignoring the cry of help from the public. Also, what else is really interesting is that our government is very against legalising cannabis for recreation, however, Teresa May's husband is in the cannabis industry and so are a lot more as that's is where the money is at the moment as weed legalisation is becoming more of a movement from the public.
The UK laws on cannabis
In the UK we have what is known as 'The Misuse of Drugs Act' which was put into use in1971. This act was set in place to help prevent the use of non-medicinal drugs that would potentially hurt you. The law system states that if you try and do any of 4 crimes associated with drugs including unlawful supply, intent to supply, import or export, unlawful production and finally unlawful possession. The way they categorise a drug is that they put them in certain classes. For example, Class A is known for having very hardcore drugs like cocaine, crack, heroin and many more. Each specific class has its own maximum penalties and it tells you what prison time you could potentially get for the specific drug you're caught with.
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However in the UK cannabis has moved around these different classes, back in 2004 David Blunkett (Home Secretary at the time) happily approved to vote to reclassify cannabis from a Class B to a Class C drug. This was done so that it would free up time for police time for other more serious drugs. This does seem like a good idea as a lot of people would say when they smoke weed they don't get aggressive and out of control like they do with alcohol. However, being in Class C did not last very long because in 2008 Jacqui Smith decided that it should belong in Class B. She did give a very interesting point in why she decided to move it back, this is because the research she found said that heavy use of the drug could cause schizophrenia and other mental illnesses. This is an interesting point because over the last few years more and more countries are legalising cannabis for recreational use and we are slowly seeing an increase of people suffering from mental illness. Could this be linked? At this moment in time, the research simply is not there, but this could be a possibility.
What is CBD?
Earlier we looked into what is in cannabis that gets you high and what we found was that it was a chemical compound called THC, which is a psychoactive compound which gets you high. However, with CBD it's not psychoactive so it doesn't affect you the same way as THC. CBD can be extracted from hemp plants, however, this is only the case if the plant has less than 0.3% THC. It is possible for CBD to have some really useful health benefits such as seizures, inflammation, pain, psychosis, depression and anxiety. This could be groundbreaking in finding newer and safer medicines, but we soon found out that many professionals and experts can't say it has any benefits as our government won't allow them to. This is really interesting as in some cases CBD does really help people, our group could potentially
There are two very common ways of taking CBD: orally and topical. CBD comes in many different forms like oils, pills, suppositories gels and many more. With ingesting CBD orally shouldn't be any different from taking your normal paracetamol, using pill forms of CBD can also make it easier to monitor dosages as they all have set measurements. Also, one of the main ways of taking CBD is by using oil and placing it under the tongue for a couple of minutes.
The side effects of CBD oil
- Dry Mouth
- Low blood pressure
- Lightheadedness
- Drowsiness
- Signs of liver injury (only reported in a few cases)
As you can clearly see from these side effects people can be very put off from trying CBD, however, some of these effects are not scientifically proven as of yet. This is for the CBD oil so the side effects might be different when using rubs on the skin. Side effects normally won't happen straight away, with taking CBD they normally say you'd start feeling the effects after 2 weeks. The reason it takes so long to feel the effect is because we have something called the Endocannabinoid system. This means that in our biological system we have cannabinoid receptor, but if you don't take CBD they are dormant, so it takes a while before they start picking up the cannabinoids in the CBD.
Colour
With many different news companies out there the main ones all have their own signature colours that we instantly connect with them. For example, red and blue would be Sky Sports news or just red would be the BBC. So why dies clour have such importance to the news? I recently found I very interesting video on Youtube where the cinematographer from the new release Joker talks about how different lighting and colour could give different emotions. He also goes on to say how some colour contrast really well with each other like blues and oranges look really nice together even though he talks about the film colour this same effect can be brought to the news by using different significant colours for our graphics. So if it was a sad story we might use blue graphics or if it's breaking news we'd used red. Therefore meaning that with every different type of story we provide we could have a colour that signifies what this show will be like.looking for potential interviewees
Ben Birrell:
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Callie Blackwell:
I can remember watching a couple of years ago on ITV's This Morning where she went on to tell us about the tragic and very scary illness her son Deryn who suffered from a very rare and aggressive form of cancer call Langerhans cell sarcoma. After 4 unsuccessful bone marrow transplants, his mother was told that he had days at the most, that's when somehow Deryn started to battle his way back. The doctors were in disbelief when he made a full discovery, however, what the doctors didn't know that Callie went behind their backs and started giving Deryn medical cannabis and she credits cannabis for saving his life.
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Getting an Interview with Callie and maybe even Deryn would be great as we can capture the emotion they both went through. The really interesting aspect of this story is that Callie had suffered no repercussions for her actions. I've managed to find an email for her however, it was on her website so when it came to email her I had to do it through that.
Leslie Castro
Leslie is my Grandad and he has been suffering for years with Arthritis, he's been taking a lot of different prescribed drugs from his doctor, but they never seemed to work that well. Before the second year started he was going through a really bad spell with his arthritis so my mum decided to go to the 1010 farm in Elmswell. Where she was given some CBD samples like oil and rubs to help him. I think it would be a really good idea to interview him because he is very against drugs so when he said he'd try it, it was a big shock for our family. Although he seemed keen to try CBD he didn't stick with the oil for very long. If we went to interview him we could find out why he stopped taking it, this would then give another side to the story as we try and find out why he stopped. Was it the stigma around it being made from cannabis, or did he just not give it enough time.
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