BREAKING: FDA OKs first cannabinoid, gives green light to GW Pharma’s Epidiolex for rare seizures
GW Pharma $GWPH finished its layup at the FDA today with Epidiolex, grabbing its first ever marketing OK for one of its cannabinoid drugs and setting up the biotech for a major shift toward...
To be fair, it is a natural human instinct to reject the unknown. That said, when a pharmacologist (me) and whatever he is, he knows his stuff (@dingodan) patiently point to the literature and share our experiences and insights.....it reminds me about the conversations when decriminalizing...
I am not advocating a free for all, and certainly cannabis should be controlled like alcohol. However the statements you make are false or baseless. And importanty cannabis is nothing like as addictive as alcohol or tobacco. I used to smoke it a lot (student). Like all my contemporaries, now, as...
Compred with tobacco it seems the cancer risk is low
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4262725/
My expectation is that the cancer risk from smoking cannabis will turn out to be much the same as for tobacco. It took Richard Doll a long time to get the evidence for tobacco. The study...