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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 New Zealand: Medicinal cannabis application approved for teenager in coma 🌿New Zealand: Medicinal cannabis application approved for teenager in coma
A teenager in an induced coma in Wellington Hospital is the first to have received a cannabidiol product signed off by a Government minister.
On Tuesday Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne approved the one-off use of Elixinol, a cannabidiol (CBD) product from the United States for Alex Renton.
The 19-year-old Nelson man has been in hospital since early April and remains in "status epilepticus", a kind of prolonged seizure.
Dunne said doctors have been able to apply for medicinal cannabis products for many years but this is the first time this particular avenue has been used for this particular product.
"I received the advice from the Ministry of Health this morning and that advice was 50/50 saying that there's no compelling evidence that this product will work. On the other hand there's no compelling evidence it will do significant damage to him."
But Dunne stressed this wasn't a precedent and...
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