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Cannabis oil use in Missouri off to slow start

Submitted by Marijuana News on Sun, 11/22/2015 - 18:29

Many doctors reluctant to use treatment that lacks federal OK

KANSAS CITY, Mo. —Efforts to make cannabis oil available to Missourians with a severe type of epilepsy are off to a slow start, mostly because neurologists are reluctant to certify patients to try a treatment that does not have federal approval.

In 2014, the Missouri Legislature legalized cannabis oil to treat an intractable type of epilepsy that can't be controlled by medications. Darla Templeton, director of the Epilepsy Foundation of Missouri and Kansas, estimates 18,000 Missourians could be eligible for the treatment.

So far, nine neurologists statewide are willing to allow patients to try the treatment and only 15 patients are certified to receive it. That has led the two groups with licenses to grow industrial hemp and extract the oil to scale back their plans. They say they are still determined to eventually provide...

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