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Sep 24, 2026

Christine CarrGUEST
13:06
They just say, yeah, let's just figure out a way to bring up one.
Christine CarrGUEST
13:08
And, of course, yes, we have already FDA medical cannabinoids like Marinol and Epidiolex.
Christine CarrGUEST
13:15
You can get that from a prescription from a doctor.
Christine CarrGUEST
13:17
You can actually pick it up from a pharmacy.
Diego Da SilvaGUEST
33:06
So that's something that's worth mentioning.
Diego Da SilvaGUEST
33:09
And then the second piece of that is are things off the beaten path that you sometimes have to use to your comment, right? Unlike us being hardcore doctors and not all of you guys obviously listening to this are going to be chronic paritis experts, but it's good to know what exists and what's out there, right? So things off the beaten path that I have used, dronabinol, which many of you may remember from med school or internship is, you know, Marinol or medical marijuana that they use for like chemo, nausea and like cachexia, right? To increase appetite, give them the...
Jonny HatchHOST
33:34
the munchies in a good way,
Diego Da SilvaGUEST
33:35
you know, they need them.
Andrea BarthwellGUEST
11:04
So anyways, GW Pharma figured out how to create a solution in which this THC and CBD could be dissolved, highly characterized it, went through all the processes of getting it approved for use in the UK, Canada, the EU, and finally the United States, and it's on the market today.
Andrea BarthwellGUEST
11:24
That was a response on the part of the British government to its medical marijuana problem because people who were who wanted to see marijuana be used as a medicine, claimed that the chemical, the lab-based Marinol that we had available to us as physicians to use for the treatment of pain was inferior to the plant-derived molecule, even though the molecules cannot be separated from one another or that you can't identify one versus the other.
Andrea BarthwellGUEST
12:00
They look the same when you do an analysis of the molecule.
Andrea BarthwellGUEST
12:03
But there are people who claim that the molecule from the plant was superior to the molecule that was generated in lab.
Chris CanoHOST
73:13
The knowledge acquired from this naturalistic study can be utilized in design and development of future clinical trials of THC and CBD containing cannabis products in the population.
Chris CanoHOST
73:23
Oral synthetic THC encapsulated in sesame seed oil marketed as Marinol is approved by the USDA for the treatment of appetite loss in people with HIV and AIDS.
Chris CanoHOST
73:34
But understand that it is botanical cannabis that had the greatest effect and that it was superior to the prescription medicines that we see doctors prescribing for eating disorders, according to the studies authors.
Chris CanoHOST
73:47
Now, moving on.
Michael SavageHOST
15:32
I heard about it.
Michael SavageHOST
15:32
So take Marinol, okay? Using it to get high under the guise of, uh, legalizi- legalized pot.
Michael SavageHOST
15:38
It was started by George Soros.
Michael SavageHOST
15:39
I argued over this in '98 with one of his stooges.
John NeyHOST
4:53
And even with cannabis being a Schedule I drug, there had been four cannabidiol-derived medications that had been approved during this time.
John NeyHOST
5:06
The Marinol, Sindrol, Sesamet, which are synthetic drugs.
John NeyHOST
5:11
cannabinoids and then cannabidiol itself for Lennox-Gastaut seizures and Dravet syndrome.
John NeyHOST
5:17
Even given the issues with Schedule 1 where presumably there's no medical usage, people have still found medical usage and gotten it approved, so there's definite interest.
Calvin SchwartzHOST
13:32
So they actually prescribed.
Calvin SchwartzHOST
13:35
It's a drug called Marinol.
Calvin SchwartzHOST
13:37
M-A-R-I-N-O-L.
Gil LuxenbourgGUEST
13:38
I know it.
Anthony VarrellHOST
19:26
For, for Dravid syndrome and then other, other seizure.
Anthony VarrellHOST
19:30
Uh, Marinol is another one.
Anthony VarrellHOST
19:32
Thank you, Jamie.
Anthony VarrellHOST
19:33
Um, that is, uh, that they're all, they're mostly for seizures.
Anthony VarrellHOST
19:37
And I think one of them is for, uh, chemo induced nausea.
Anthony VarrellHOST
19:40
Gotcha.
Anthony VarrellHOST
19:41
Which I think Marinol is.
Shadd DalesHOST
19:43
Marriage is the worst drug I've ever tried.
Chad LawHOST
18:32
One year old.
Chad LawHOST
18:33
The federal government looked at a cannabis-derived drug and said, "Yes, give it to a baby who's having 40 seizures a day." Marinol, nineteen eighty-five.
Chad LawHOST
18:42
It's called Sindres, Kesimet, chemotherapy, nausea, AIDS, wasting, people who couldn't keep food down and were disappearing.
Chad LawHOST
18:50
Four drugs, real trials, real patients, and a federal schedule that says no accepted medical use.
Vickie Petz KasperHOST
9:42
It's also why marijuana causes the munchies.
Vickie Petz KasperHOST
9:45
For many years, there's been a pharmaceutical form called Marinol that's used in cancer patients to stimulate appetite.
Vickie Petz KasperHOST
9:51
But when it comes to belly fat, that's not really the goal.
Vickie Petz KasperHOST
9:54
So they tried this weight loss drug to block these receptors, and it did, in fact, reduce appetite.

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