GW Pharmaceuticals’s Epidyolex (cannabidiol) has been changed from a Schedule 2 drug to a Schedule 5 drug, making it exempt from virtually all controlled drug requirements.
GW Pharmaceuticals may be the first drugmaker to roll out a cannabis-based drug in the U.S., but it's unlikely to be the last—and that's why so many are keeping an eye on GW's Epidiolex launch.
UK-based GW Pharmaceuticals and its US division Greenwich Biosciences have launched an oral solution of cannabis-based drug Epidiolex in the US to treat seizures in Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) or Dravet syndrome patients aged two years and above.