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

NORML

There are currently five “pharmaceutical processor” permit holders in Virginia, and they’re about to open for business. Now, in 2015 — like in many other states throughout the country — we saw some fresh faces in the marijuana policy conversation. As in, no to anyone who wasn’t an epilepsy patient.].

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Not-very-NICE: UK Cannabis Policy and Harm to Patients

CannaTech

The pleas of parents fighting to treat their sick children are impossible to ignore, as evidenced by the impact of Billy Caldwell and Alfie Dingley’s parents in shifting the regulatory framework for UK cannabis policy. UK cannabis policy is not serving the interests of patients.

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Cannabis laws in France

The Cannigma

Marijuana is not legal in France, and the country is seen as having some of the strictest cannabis policies in western Europe. Patients can take part if they have a medical condition which has not responded to pharmaceutical drugs. Children may be eligible in cases of refractory epilepsy or cancer.

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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. Knowledge, attitudes and policies regarding medical cannabis and cannabis-based drugs are changing. Here are the takeaways ( Source Fitch). Source: [link].

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Meet the Creators of Separating the Strains

CannaTech

We are delighted to introduce you to some new friends set to make a big impact on the medical cannabis advocacy scene… the creators of a new documentary called Separating the Strains ; a deeply personal narrative that charts the reality of living with epilepsy, with and without cannabis medication as a treatment option.

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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. Epilepsy Behav. Accessed October 17, 2022. 2021.108514.

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Natural Products, the FDA and Cannabis Regulation

Canna Law Blog

Epidiolex is a drug that was created by Cambridge, UK-based GW Pharmaceuticals and was approved by the FDA as a drug in 2018 to help relieve epilepsy-induced seizures. GW Pharmaceuticals has now done two decades’ worth of research on CBD and other cannabinoids and is responsible for putting CBD on the FDA’s radar many years ago.