After decades of advocates asking for cannabis to be removed as a Schedule I drug, on September 28, 2018, the DEA recognized that cannabis can have medicinal value and therefore the cannabis drug Epidiolex cannot be a Schedule I drug. Schedule I is reserved for drugs that have “no medicinal value” and have the potential to be highly addictive.
Specifically the DEA concluded that “Epidiolex no longer meets the criteria for placement in schedule I of the CSA.”
On June 25, 2018 the FDA had approved Epidiolex “for the treatment of seizures associated with two rare and severe forms ...
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