Carly’s Law gets UAB approval, still needs OK from DEA
http://www.myfoxal.com/story/27909006/carlys-law-gets-uab-approval-still-needs-ok-from-dea
BIRMINGHAM, AL (WBRC) – The Carly’s Law study is one step closer to beginning.
Carly’s Law would allow research CBD oil, a marijuana-derived oil, and how it treats seizures. Chandler’s daughter was diagnosed with a rare disease in 2012, which is what made him and his family fight for this research.
“Just being able to get to this point where you can get the medicine and provide that hope is really what we’ve been looking for, is to get tho this point. It’s been so long and we’ve waited so long just to get to this point to be able to say the patients out there that may need it, that were able to try it and see if it works,” Chandler said.
Officials say patients have to be referred by a doctor to participate in the study. Chandler said several hundred people are on a waiting list to be a part of it.
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OMG…They’ve had this research farm for AGES!!!!! and NOW they need to do studies???? I was in pharmacy school during the 80s and one of my medicinal chemistry and natural products professors was always talking about this place and the research they were doing on cannabis at that time….they already know everything there is to know about it. This is such BS they have to approve it now.
The DEA is only the last agency in a long list of government agencies that have to approve a research project for cannabis. I assume they have to approve where the supply comes from, which for a research study, I guess it comes from the fed’s cannabis farm in Mississippi (or wherever it is).
But if this state wants a high quality strain, they should look elsewhere, like in Colorado. I heard that the marijuana the fed’s grow is not that great.