Can Medicinal Marijuana Be Used To Treat Epilepsy, Seizure Disorder Along With Anxiety?

Posted on Tue, 30 Apr 2013

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Question : Can medicinal marijuana be used to treat epilepsy/seizure disorder? As well with Anxiety/Panic attacks

Answered by Dr. Gopal Krishna Dash (11 minutes later)

Hello,

Thanks for the query

I am an Epilepsy specialist responding to you. Please note that there is currently no evidence for the use of this product for the management of either epilepsy or anxiety related issues.

Let me know if you have any other questions in this issues

Best wishes

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar