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What’s the deal with ketamine? Q&A on Special K

The Cannigma

2 3 As clinical trials around the world proceeded in the late 1960s and 1970s, patients began reporting difficulty tolerating ketamine’s unpleasant hallucinogenic and dissociative properties. Ketamine was approved by the FDA in 1970 and was immediately put to use as an important tool for war medics in the Vietnam War.

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Report: “Key pharmacological differences between side effects of refined, pharmaceutical CBD formulations and whole plant extracts:”

Cannabis Law Report

Recent studies on the effectiveness of cannabidiol in the rare seizure disorders Dravet Syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome have prompted a biopharmaceutical company to perform clinical trials of its own to bring a cannabidiol based drug to the American market through the process of FDA approval. 32: United States DEA.