A 1949 study showed that drug principles isolated from leaves of marijuana, an innocent looking plant that grows wild in different parts of the world are playing an important role in research on a cure for epilepsy. This is the same marijuana which so many people fear as a habit-forming drug and which is noted for the opium-like dreams it produces in those who partake of it.
She reports that the drugs have been found effective about 50% of the time. “Future for epileptics appears very bright” she said “because of not only one new drug but a whole field of new compounds to combat epileptic seizures.”
She obviously didn’t know what the cannabis industry would be up against…
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