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NORML Chapter Newsletter – April 2019

NORML

NORML Announces Plans for 2019 Conference and Lobby Day. 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.” ” Read more from NORML.org !

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Will Texas Legalize Recreational Marijuana?

Veriheal

The signing of House Bill 1325 by Governor Abbott in 2019 legalized the cultivation of industrial hemp (cannabis containing less than 0.3% The Texas medical cannabis program allows for no more than 0.5% THC), allowing for the aforementioned limited cannabis purchase and use.

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GW Pharmaceuticals receives approval for EPIDYOLEX® (cannabidiol) from the MHRA for the treatment of seizures associated with tuberous sclerosis complex

Cannabis Law Report

GW was initially granted marketing authorisation for this medicine in the UK in September 2019 as an adjunctive therapy for seizures associated with Lennox Gastaut syndrome (LGS) or Dravet syndrome, in conjunction with clobazam, for patients two years of age and older. Epilepsy in tuberous sclerosis complex: Findings from the TOSCA Study.

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Cannabis Patents are Approaching the Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Canna Law Blog

On January 3, 2019, the PTAB published its Final Written Decision in the case, Insys Development Co, Inc. 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.

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Cannabis laws in Texas

The Cannigma

In recent years, lawmakers have eased up on a number of cannabis-derived formulations, and since 2015, people with epilepsy can obtain cannabis oil that contains less than 0.5% Texas is the largest state in the US without legal recreational cannabis or a large-scale medical cannabis program. THC under the Texas Compassionate Use Ac t.

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

NORML

And, 2019’s SB 1557 makes it possible for patients to get as much as 10mg of THC in each dose — the same limit as one serving size for edibles in adult-use states. These were moms and dads and grandparents of children [with intractable epilepsy] who were using medical cannabis oils. They were all fine with that?

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GW’s Cannabis-Based Epilepsy Drug Set For European Approval

Cannabis Law Report

Following an encouraging initial US launch, GW Pharmaceuticals’s cannabidiol oral solution is also set to achieve European approval later in 2019. GW Pharmaceuticals said in May, Epidiolex was successful in treating seizures in patients with a rare form of childhood epilepsy called tuberous sclerosis complex during a late-stage trial.