Cannabis Law Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This National Epilepsy Awareness Month, TXOG advocates for the power of medical cannabis for epilepsy patients. Diagnosed with epilepsy at 3 years old, Ortiz would experience erratic, unpredictable seizure clusters, each lasting 20 minutes.

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Patients Epilepsy Medicine Advocacy 52

PrestoDoctor

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The Compassionate Use Act, enacted in 2015, allows for the medical use of low-THC cannabis oil by patients with certain qualifying conditions. These conditions include epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, terminal cancer, incurable neurological disorders, and a list of others. or less) and high levels of CBD.

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Legalization Dispensary Recreational Legislation 52

Cannabis Law Report

JULY 30, 2021

Fifty-nine-year old Dragoljub Mrdjic has suffered from epilepsy for most of his life. Few medicines have helped him, but his condition drastically improved after he started treating himself with cannabis oil in 2001. “I I tried standard medicine, but there wasn’t much of a result.

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Cannabis Law Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Chronic pain or pain were the conditions most frequently mentioned in articles about cannabis, followed by epilepsy, cancer or cancer pain, and nausea and chemotherapy. Refractory paediatric epilepsy. 2015 ; Kaiser 2011 ; Mortensen et al. Conclusions. Palliative care indications. Cancer pain. Neuropathic pain.

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Research and Development Medicine Access Media 52

Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

7 While the lifetime use remains relatively stable for this cohort, from 2015-2017, past year and past month use increased 2.7% In 2015, Whiting, et al, performed a meta-analysis and systematic review of research on the medical use of cannabis. Cannabinoids in the treatment of epilepsy: hard evidence at last? J Epilepsy Res.

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Cannabinoids Marijuana Research and Development Access 40

NORML

MAY 1, 2019

David Phipps, communications director of Indiana Norml, said CBD oil can help with epilepsy, noting cases where some child patients went from over 100 seizures a day to near zero when they started taking CBD.” David Phipps, Communications Director, Indiana NORML. “PTSD is not the only neurological disorder CBD can assist with.

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Decriminalization Seed-To-Sale Marijuana Patients 166

NORML

AUGUST 26, 2019

So, it shouldn’t be a huge surprise that Virginia didn’t launch a medical marijuana program until 2015, nearly two decades after California. Not much happened between 1979 and 2015, aside from preventing the repeal of the wonky 1979 law. As in, no to anyone who wasn’t an epilepsy patient.]. We need to do more.

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Marijuana Legalization Programs Oil 211