GW Pharmaceuticals’ Epidiolex has become the first cannabinoid prescription medicine to be approved in the US, winning clearance to treat two rare forms of epilepsy.
GW Pharmaceuticals and its US subsidiary Greenwich Biosciences have completed the rolling submission of Epidiolex as adjunctive treatment of seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome and Dravet syndrome, two difficult-to-treat forms of childhood-onset epilepsy.