Do we really need this?
All self-respecting painkillers these days offer “fast-acting relief,” a promise we accept to mean anywhere from 15 minutes to more than an hour.
For Alexza Pharmaceuticals Inc., which is developing drugs for migraine, pain, panic and agitation, “fast” has to mean “within seconds.”
The Palo Alto, California-based company is developing drugs that can be “smoked,” and, like nicotine in cigarettes, pass through the lungs and into the bloodstream almost instantly.
Hmmmm. A pain reliever that can be smoked. Why that almost sounds like this. Perhaps instead of trying to find a substitute for this, why don’t we just make this legal.
Just sayin’.
Darren Copeland 