Few to benefit from bill allowing study of medicinal hemp as epilepsy treatment

Hemp-Seed-Oil-2By Sarah Wheeler | Charlotte Observer

RALEIGH Legislation to let doctors use oil from hemp plants to treat drug-resistant epilepsy will make the new treatment available only to a small number of patients who take part in pilot studies, rather than a broader patient base as many families have hoped.

Some patients are already calling doctors, hoping to sign up for the hemp oil treatment – only to learn they might not be eligible.

“People need to know what the bill is not,” said Dr. Mohamad Mikati, an epileptologist and chief of child neurology at Duke University. “The only way you can access it (hemp oil) is through a study.”

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