FDA Approves First Cannabis Based Drug - Your News Wire: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved America’s first cannabis derived drug.
Big pharma’s drug Epidiolex is designed to treat two rare forms of epilepsy and is made from cannabidol, a component of marijuana that does not give users a high.
According to a statement from GW Pharmaceuticals, the UK-based biopharmaceutical company that makes Epidiolex, “The drug is the “first pharmaceutical formulation of highly-purified, plant-based cannabidiol (CBD), a cannabinoid lacking the high associated with marijuana, and the first in a new category of anti-epileptic drugs”
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