The cannnabis-based drugs maker GW Pharmaceuticals has revealed it is planning to use a new component of the plant to create a treatment for epilepsy.

This would add to its growing use as a treatment for multiple sclerosis and pain relief for cancer patients.

It follows the publication of research by the University of Reading into the previously largely ignored cannabidvarin which occurs naturally in cannabis. Scientists found that cannabidvarin works against epileptics' convulsions, but unlike other cannabis-based treatments does not make users "high".

Dr Stephen Wright, the research and development director at GW, said: "These results further underscore the potential of naturally derived cannabinoids as medicines to treat a range of diseases. GW has a track record of discovering and commercialising such compounds."

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GW has found out what mankind has known for ten thousand years woopee 😃

While humanity has used cannabis for thousands of years (to be anal about it the earliest known use I believe was ~5000yrs ago, not tens of thousands...), the more diseases we 'discover' can be aided by using cannabis, the better.

Just more of things that would have been made better if weed wasn't a class one drug and could be researched.