JSE-Listed investment holding company Labat Africa says it has begun South Africa’s first ethically-approved cannabis clinical trials – the Pharma Ethics Observational Study.
The Biodata research project is to test whether cannabis can replace opioids in the management of chronic pain, the firm said in a statement on Tuesday . Biodata, a subsidiary of Labat Africa, is the brainchild of Dr Shiksha Gallow, a cannabis clinician, and the principal investigator in the trials, which took over 18 months to get official clearance.
Dr Gallow said the chemovars currently being used in the study are ‘Tallyman’ and ‘Exodus,’ which are being sourced from Labat’s Sweetwaters Aquaponics SAHPRA-licensed facility in the Eastern Cape. Dr Gallow said: “We are currently recruiting patients, and data-capturing all the questionnaires and feedback from the patients for the live Study. It has been fairly slow. However, more options have been introduced in the live study as suggested by the patients in the pilot study.
“Once we reach the sample size required and all of the relevant data has been collated, the results of the study will be published. We have currently renewed this study for another year, due to the initial slow uptake of research participants.”
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