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How does medical marijuana help patients with Epilepsy?

FloridaMarijuana.net

The Epilepsy Foundation defines epilepsy as a chronic condition of the brain which causes seizures and affects 65 million people worldwide. One in 26 people will develop epilepsy in their lifetime. It is not fully known the genetic origins of epilepsy or if the condition is hereditary. appeared first on.

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GW suffers major blow as US sinks bid to patent cannabinoids for epilepsy

Cannabis Law Report

British firm GW Pharmaceuticals is licking its wounds after US judges tossed out its attempt to patent multiple cannabinoids for epilepsy treatment following an eight-year battle. The patent, which has been embroiled in dispute since 2010, is for “the use of one or more cannabinoids in the treatment of epilepsy”.

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UK Children Who Suffer With Epilepsy May Soon See Relief

Veriheal

In June of 2016, the UK voted in favor of a departure from the European Union. Unfortunately, this had a powerful impact on a small subset of residents—UK children suffering from epilepsy who had been dependent on imported medications to help control their illness. Thanks to Brexit, UK Children With Epilepsy Have Little if Any Options.

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New Study Shows Cannabis Use May Be Responsible For Improved Health And Quality of Life

MedicalJane

A web-based study enrolled 1,276 participants (including those already using a cannabis product and those considering its use) between April 2016 and February 2018. Of the 1,276 participants, 524 adult patients and 284 adult caregivers of children or dependent adults, all self-reported using cannabis for medicinal purposes.

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What will unrestricted access to Medicinal Cannabis look like in Australia?

MGC Pharma

In 2016, growing Cannabis for scientific and medicinal purposes was made legal; in 2017, the first Cannabis Research license was issued; and just this year the federal government moved to legalise Medicinal Cannabis exports. kg of THC per annum for Epilepsy, MS and HIV/Aids sufferers alone. kg of CBD and 163.7

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Virginia, Marijuana, and How Medical Legalization May Unfold in the South

NORML

To be fair, Democrats didn’t mention weed legalization on their party’s official platform until 2016.). These were moms and dads and grandparents of children [with intractable epilepsy] who were using medical cannabis oils. As in, no to anyone who wasn’t an epilepsy patient.]. They were all fine with that?

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Cannabis Patents are Approaching the Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Canna Law Blog

9,066,920 – “Use of one or a combination of phyto-cannabinoids in the treatment of epilepsy” (“the 920 Patent”). Epidiolex was approved to treat two rare forms of epilepsy: Dravet syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. In this case, the subject patent was U.S. The 920 Patent was originally assigned to GW Pharma Ltd. (“GW