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New U.S. Research Efforts Could Catalyze Medical Cannabis’ Adoption in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Veriheal

The final goal is to introduce medicinal cannabis products to the pharmaceutical drug market. You don’t take that opium poppy and ask a patient to rub it on their lip for morphine. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). “We know cannabis has powerful potential medical effects. territories. This means that U.S.

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The Epidiolex Effect: Will Other CBD Drugs Receive FDA and DEA Approval?

Freedom Leaf

On September 28, the DEA designated Epidiolex —a plant-based CBD pharmaceutical manufactured by the UK-based GW Pharmaceuticals—a Schedule V drug in the government’s list of controlled substances. schedules were created by the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) in 1970 and are interpreted and enforced by the DEA.

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GW Pharmaceuticals Wins the Queens Prize for Innovation

SpeedWeed

The British cannabis pharmaceutical company takes home an award that demonstrates how important cannabis has been to the British economy for over 20 years—but also how much it so far has been reserved, as an industry, and as a drug, for the elite. GW Pharmaceuticals was just awarded a so-called “ Queen’s Prize for Innovation.” .

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

Cannabis Law Report

Side effects were very prevalent in 79% of all patients taking a refined CBD product, some of which were severe like thrombocytopenia and transaminase elevations in the liver. Review: During an open-label trial of pure CBD with Lennox-Gastaut and Dravet patients, 79% of all patients reported side effects.

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Big Pharma’s Foray into Cannabis May Spell Trouble for Consumers

NewsMunchies

A new marijuana-derived drug to treat rare forms of severe epilepsy in children will cost about $32,500 per patient, per year. Epidiolex , the first cannabis pharmaceutical to be approved by the U.S. But at what cost to the patient or consumer is cannabis available or unavailable? Marijuana – it’s a numbers game.

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The Path to Greenlighting CBD

Burns Levinson (Cannabusiness advisory)

This marks the first time in history that the DEA has removed any type of cannabis from Schedule I, and clears the way for the sale of the first non-synthetic, cannabis-derived medicine to win federal approval. According to the DEA order, because the drug was recently approved by the FDA, it is now considered to have an accepted medical use.

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Approval of Epidiolex Validates What Many CBD Users Already Knew

MedicalJane

The FDA announced in a press release on Monday that it had approved the “first drug comprised of an active ingredient derived from marijuana to treat rare, severe forms of epilepsy.”. It is also the first FDA approval of a drug for the treatment of patients with Dravet syndrome. Prior to this week, the U.S. “It’s fantastic.