Marijuana-based medicine to be trialled in Scotland
A new treatment derived from cannabis is to go on trial in Scotland in a bid to help sick children.
Doctors have been given the go-ahead to test Epidiolex, a treatment based on cannabidiol (CBD) a non-psychoactive compound found in the cannabis plant.
And medical experts are hoping the treatment – which has had success in studies on the treatment of epilepsy in the US – will help Scottish children whose seizures cannot be controlled with existing medications.
‘Many children with serious forms of epilepsy do not respond to the medications that we currently have available,’ said Dr Richard Chin, director of the Muir Maxwell Epilepsy Centre.
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‘We need new means of treating these conditions so that we can give back some quality of life to these children and their families.
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