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Epilepsy patients navigate a murky, unregulated CBD market

The products may help some people with the neurological disorder, but obtaining the right treatments can be difficult In 2013, Tonya Taylor says, she was suicidal because her epileptic seizures kept coming even though she was taking a long list…

DHSC Confirms Further 6-Month Extension For Import Of Life Saving Childrens’ Epilepsy Drugs

THE Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC) has announced that emergency measures to ensure supplies of childrens’ epilepsy cannabis medication remain accessible in the UK will be extended for another three months. Supplies of Bedrocan oils, which are prescribed…

Nebraska medical marijuana supporters take first step in 2022 petition drive

September 29, 2020
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Backers of medical marijuana took the first step toward a 2022 petition drive by filing new language with the Secretary of State’s Office on Monday. This time Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana is opting for a simple, direct approach with a proposed…

Marijuana-derived epilepsy drug doubles sales, sending GW Pharma stock soaring

August 7, 2019
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GW Pharmaceuticals PLC reported Tuesday afternoon that sales of its cannabis-derived epilepsy drug more than doubled from the previous quarter, sending shares spiking more than 11% higher in after-hours trading. GW Pharmaceuticals GWPH, +10.22% reported second-quarter sales of $68.4 million for Epidiolex, which uses…

Marijuana-Based Epilepsy Drug Could Hit The U.S. Market By Mid-2018

A new class of epilepsy medications based on an ingredient derived from marijuana could be available as soon as the second half of 2018 in the United States, pending Food and Drug Administration approval. Officials from GW Pharmaceuticals, the company that developed the…

Study Proves Marijuana Can Reduce Epileptic Seizures

Medical researchers have confirmed what some desperate parents have been claiming for years—that a nonpsychoactive component of marijuana known as cannabidiol (CBD) can reduce epileptic seizures in some children. Published in The New England Journal of Medicine, the findings stem…

CBD: The Medical Marijuana ‘Game-Changer’

Jackson Leyden had always been a healthy kid; he practiced taekwondo, and he played lacrosse and baseball. But in 2011, a few months after his eighth birthday, he began having seizures several times a day. Many were brief, a half-minute…

Illinois extends marijuana experiment to children

January 3, 2015
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Illinois
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CHICAGO — Randy Gross hopes a new law allowing children into Illinois' medical marijuana program will reunite his family, nearly a year after his wife moved to Colorado so their son could receive a controversial treatment to ease his epileptic…