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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 NZ: Cannabis oil treatment for seizures - expert reaction 🌿NZ: Cannabis oil treatment for seizures - expert reaction
Health authorities have approved the use of cannabis derived medication Elixinol - on a one-off basis - to treat a coma patient encountering ongoing seizures. But does it work?
The drug was approved on compassionate grounds by Associate Minister of Health Hon Peter Dunne, to be administered by clinicians treating Wellington patient Alex Renton.
The Science Media Centre contacted experts for comment.
Assoc Prof Michelle Glass, Head - Department of Pharmacology, University of Auckland, comments:
"The reports that we have seen in the media today strongly imply that the government has approved cannabis for the treatment of Alex Renton, it is important that people recognise that this is not the case. What has been approved is oil made from industrial hemp, which is not marijuana, it is not a drug that will make the user experience any of the "high" generally associated with cannabis based products. Instead, these are plants...
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