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Concentrating on the Benefits of Cannabidiols

This issue of CULTURE is focusing on concentrates. While there are Colorado Marijuana
Enforcement Division (MED) regulations for concentrates, the MED is currently
refining these regulations to be p

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This issue of CULTURE is focusing on concentrates. While there are Colorado Marijuana
Enforcement Division (MED) regulations for concentrates, the MED is currently
refining these regulations to be promulgated shortly. When we think of
concentrates in Colorado we usually think of extracting THC from the plant and
making hash, hash oil, bubble hash, oil for vape pens, wax and other exotic
ways to ingest THC.

There is another molecule in the
cannabis plant that has received quite a bit of notoriety lately, Cannabidiol,
better known as CBD. This is an extract from the cannabis plant that has become
famous for helping children with severe forms of epilepsy. While cannabis is
most known for its THC molecule with psychoactive affects, cousin CBD is a non-psychoactive
molecule. The two names that are synonymous with CBD extraction are the Stanley
Brothers and The Realm of Caring Foundation (Realm of Caring). The Stanley
Brothers extracted the CBD oil concentrate to aid children suffering from
extreme forms of epilepsy while it also has offered aid for other conditions
and also medication for adults. CBD has been made known as “Charlotte’s Web”
because the little girl the brothers became famous for extracting the CBD oil
for was named Charlotte. Realm of Caring has been instrumental in promoting CBD
and in aiding families nationwide who are searching for some relief for their
children. If you look on the Realm of Caring’s website you can read stories of
people whose lives have been changed dramatically from this concentrate extraction.
See if you can read those stories and not be moved.

There have been some ripple affects
from this CBD explosion. A company named GW Pharmaceuticals out of Great Britain
has a drug, Epidiolex, which has recently been given “orphan status” under the
Orphan Drug Act by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to conduct
clinical trials. Epidiolex contains plant derived CBD as its active ingredient
for treating children with epilepsy.

The FDA provides incentives for drug
companies to research and develop products known as “orphan drugs” to treat
rare diseases. These orphan drugs are developed for medical conditions
afflicting under 200,000 thousand people in the United States. The FDA can offer
incentives to drug companies to develop these specialty drugs that ordinarily may not otherwise be pursued. Also, various state
legislatures have been considering passing laws to legalize the cannabis
extracted concentrate CBD be used in treatment.

This is in response to parents
in those states advocating for this epileptic medication for their children. So,
states that have not legalized medical cannabis or retail cannabis have been
pressured to pass this narrow law legalizing CBD-only concentrates for medical use.
There has been an outcry from cannabis advocates pointing out that those states
need to acknowledge the value of other aspects of cannabis beyond just CBD
concentrates. This has been seen as a political move to avoid legalizing
medical cannabis or cannabis and yet satisfy some of the outcry for access to cannabis
for medical use.

 

Ann Toney, P.C. is a Denver-based law firm that focuses on cannabis business law and cannabis defense. Ann Toney can be contacted via email anntoneylaw@gmail.com or by phone at (303) 399-5556 and www.anntoneylaw.com

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