Challenges Creating Medicines From Cannabis

Drug development today is a long, arduous, and expensive proposition. Since the first half of the 20th century, the standard of care in medicine and the pharmaceutical industry is developing medications using nationally standardized protocols for medication safety and efficacy along with precision dosing for any new drug. Formulation development of drugs is key to…

Can cannabis be used to treat cancer?

At the present cannabis is only used to treat the symptoms from the side effects of cancer therapy. In the U.S. today, in many states, cancer therapy may include cannabis, used as an adjunct therapy to treat the side effects of chemotherapy. Cannabis’ anti-emetic properties treat nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy as well as…