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Medical cannabis faces a double standard for safety and efficacy compared to prescription pharmaceuticals.
The most recent illustration of that fact is a story from the Wall Street Journal, which reported this week that at least a third of children with previously untreatable epilepsy got better on extracts of cannabis - a non-toxic botanical.
Of 75 children who took cannabidiol (CBD), the second most common active molecule in cannabis, “33% of them had their seizures drop by half,” the Journal reported.
In a study funded by GW Pharmaceuticals — makers of cannabis extract Epidiolex — 40 percent of patients saw seizures decline by more than half and 10 percent became "seizure-free.”
A CBD-rich tincture faces a cultural double standard for safety and efficacy compared to much more powerful, and dangerous prescription medications for epilepsy.
Marijuana — a federally illegal schedule 1 drug with allegedly “no medical use” — temporarily cured one in ten...
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