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Texas Tribune - In 2015, Texas passed the Compassionate Use Act, legalizing the sale of a specific type of cannabis oil for epilepsy patients whose symptoms have not responded to federally approved medication. The first Texas dispensaries are now ...

An epilepsy treatment derived from the cannabis plant took a major step toward approval from the Food and Drug Administration today. Epidiolex, an oil-based purified cannabidiol (CBD), has been studied specifically in two rare epilepsy syndromes - Le...

WFAA - In many ways, Kadience Mulanax is like any other 7-year-old girl who loves t-ball and cell-phone video games. There is a part of her life her parents wish they could change, for her sake. "I don’t know that she’s ever had a time where she’...

NBC DFW - There is more proof that some forms of medical marijuana can safely treat certain disorders. The Food and Drug Administration has published results of an ongoing study that found cannabis oil can dramatically decrease the number of seizu...

Hope. When you get past the years of hard work, science and sacrifice of the families involved, the largest study in the world of cannabidiol (CBD) comes down to that one word. Cook Children's participated in GW Pharmaceuticals latest Phase 3 c...

Texas became the latest state to legalize cannabidiol (CBD), a non-euphoric component of the marijuana plant. Gov. Greg Abbott signed the Texas Compassionate Act into law on June 1, 2015, allowing limited medical use of marijuana-derived oils that ma...