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

NORML

While patients won’t be rolling up joints full of pungent flower, they can still access oils, tinctures, lozenges, inhalers, topicals, and pills packed with non-intoxicating CBD or THC-A, the acidic precursor of THC. These were moms and dads and grandparents of children [with intractable epilepsy] who were using medical cannabis oils.

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CBD Market Report

Project CBD

5 In June 2018, the FDA approved Epidiolex® (GW Pharmaceuticals; Cambridge, UK), the first FDA-approved pharmaceutical drug to contain a “purified drug substance [CBD] derived from marijuana,” for the treatment of seizures associated with two rare epilepsy disorders. Accessed July 25, 2021. Accessed October 17, 2022.

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Three Major Australian Medical Cannabis Companies Fined By The TGA “over claims prescriptions could treat conditions such as cancer and epilepsy”

Cannabis Law Report

Australia’s drugs regulator issues 73 infringement notices over claims prescriptions could treat conditions such as cancer and epilepsy. The infringements were for the alleged unlawful advertising of medicinal cannabis products on websites and social media platforms. Cannatrek Ltd (22 notices, $293,040) and.

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Comprehensive Bill To Expand Access To Medical Cannabis In Public Schools Clears Colorado House

SpeedWeed

A bill that would expand access to medical cannabis in public schools in Colorado was passed by the state House of Representatives on Tuesday and is now headed to the desk of Democratic Gov. Now 15, Bortell moved to Colorado with her family at the age of nine so she could obtain cannabis medications to treat her intractable epilepsy.

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Specialist Doctors Launch Sapphire Medical Clinic, UK’s First Medicinal Cannabis Clinic to Treat Full Range of Health Issues Including Childhood Epilepsy

Cannabis Law Report

But it is important that access to it is delivered in a way that fits in with other treatment options. It has been widely reported in the media that parents with children suffering from intractable epilepsy continue to experience difficulties in securing prescriptions for medical cannabis products containing THC.

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Can cannabis products be used to increase overall health and well-being?

Leaf Science

In the UK, cannabis was legalized for medicinal purposes in 2018 which saw patients of epilepsy and multiple sclerosis able to access pharmaceutical cannabis derivatives such as Sativex and Epidiolex.

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‘Too costly, not enough evidence it works’, says UK in blow to cannabis campaigners

Cannabis Law Report

The watchdog refused to allow its national health service to prescribe medical cannabis for children with severe epilepsy because there is “not enough evidence it works”, a decision which angered campaigners and parents who said their children will suffer as a result.