November 21, 2017 News by Patricia Silva, PhD Oral Cannabidiol, PTL101, Meets Goals of Phase 1 Study as Possible Spasticity Treatment Results of a Phase 1 clinical trial in healthy volunteers show that PTL101, an oral cannabidiol compound, is a safe and effectively delivered potential treatment of spasticity in multiple sclerosis (MS) and for conditions like epilepsy, Harvest One Cannabis announced. These findings were published in the journal Clinical Pharmacology in Drug Development, in the study…
November 16, 2016 News by Joana Fernandes, PhD Growing Approval of Cannabis Use in US Expands a Major Market, But Tensions Evident Voters in four U.S. states on Nov. 8 chose to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, and those in three other states approved the medicinal use of cannabis — all gains for pharmaceutical and other companies designing cannabis-based therapies for people with long-term chronic ills whose symptoms might be helped with these…
February 15, 2016 News by Patricia Inacio, PhD MS Campaign In UK Pushing for Broader Access to Medical Marijuana A new campaign called “End our pain” is asking people to sign a petition calling on the U.K. to allow all patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) there to have access to medical cannabis as a treatment for MS symptoms, in keeping with countries such as Canada and Germany, and a number…
October 23, 2015 News by Charles Moore Cannabis-Derived Sativex for MS-Related Spasticity Reported to Be Effective and Safe Barcelona, Spain-based, global pharma firm Almirall presented new clinical evidence at the 31st Congress of the European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ECTRIMS) — held in Barcelona October 7–10, 2015 — supporting the efficacy of its Sativex product, currently the only pharmaceutical medicine derived from cannabinoids…
