Epidolex, What Happens After Approval?

[Texas Kid]

So from all I have read GW Pharma is about to get fast track approval from the FDA for Epidiolex. This is basically a CBD pharma grade product to be available by prescription and specifically geared toward epileptic seizure conditions in youths and adults.

So if you follow this out to its end, all the states that have recently passed specific CBD/Charolettes Web legislature for seizure kids and epileptic patients will have done so for nothing and there is actually no medical marijuana possibilities on their horizon for them other than a prescription for Epidiolex.

Just curious what others thoughts are on this

 

[Seamaiden]

Mine are a mixed bag. In part, this is what many of 'us' thought we wanted, a fuller embrace if you will, by the mainstream. But this isn't what 'we' envisioned, is it?

That said, the whole goal has been to get medicine to people in need. If covered by insurance, is this route so bad? Not as long as they don't try to pry my homegrown out of my hands, because I will always be a toker!

 

[shemshemet]

A false hope masqueraded as a true solution.

Really shouldn't be a medicine which can be patented. We've known about its use for way too long.

But where there is money to be made, even more money will be made.

It isn't that I think this product shouldn't be offered nor approved by FDA (assuming it is just CBD, which is all I can gather from a quick search), I just don't think one company should be the only one to offer it. As CBD is a very easy extraction.

Eh whatever...

 

[fishwhistle]

I hate big pharma personally,i dont think they even care about people,only money,they could give a damn.

 

[GrowGod]

This may piss off a lot of cbd farmers!

 

[souf69]

I am not surprised by this move at all. I am not to sure about this medicine, even if it is pharma grade. What will they mix into it?
Who is the maker? I suspect a float off pharm company from yippur, the patents are registered to them. And I am not sure CBD works alone as well as it would with a lil bit of THC for the mindset. No THC for the kiddos though.

 

[shemshemet]

@souf69

"sam skunkman" is one of the people behind GW. It supposedly is just CBD.
He takes credit for skunk and original haze. Some of the "only real cannabis breeding" done (other than landrace strains, which are bred by locals...beside the point). GW has done some good stuff for cannabis, and if this is a way of getting medicine to the masses than great.

But I am too much a cynic to think that this is a good thing. Seems to me like patents for things that shouldn't be patented, and cash in the bank for big pharma. Although GW is not big pharma, the doors are being held open I am sure. And if not, you can bet that "they" will chase the dollar signs.

Supposedly as well, the trials they held were supposed to work well with this medicine. I personally don't think the right studies have been done. I actually don't think the right studies can be done. Not in todays world. Too many variables, not enough constants. Doesn't make for good science. Just like nutrition.

I'm not sure.

 

[souf69]

Studies have been done, I'm sure there are answers. The CBD patents are owned by a company created by a university in israel.
If this is correct, and I'm pretty sure it is, then there will be lawsuits, etc. All those patents were licensed between 92-96. These universities have some of the brightest people in the world as students, prof, PhD, etc.
Just because they have answers does not mean they have to reveal them.

 

[souf69]

I just informed myself via Google that GW got in with that group that patented CBD. What a crock o sheet!