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Palliative Care - A type of care focused on relief from symptoms of a serious or terminal illness. The goal is to improve quality of life rather than treat the illness.

Pharmaceutical Grade - Pharmaceutical Grade products must exceed 99% purity (natural sources) and contain no binders, fillers, dyes, inactive or unknown substances.

Phytocannabinoids - Cannabinoids produced by the cannabis plant and a few other plant species

Prescription - An instruction written by a doctor that authorises a patient to be issued with a medicine or treatment.

Prosecution - The action of charging someone with a crime and putting them on trial.

Psychoactive (drug) - A psychoactive drug is a chemical substance that affects the mind and can result in alterations in perception, mood, consciousness, cognition, or behaviour.

Reference:

Backs, M, 2014 The Practical Guide to Medical Marijuana This Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, New York.

https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com (viewed March 2019)

https://www.merriam-webster.com/medical (viewed March 2019)

https://terpenesandtesting.com/category/science/cultivar-v-chemovar-debating-the-debasement-of-cannabis-vernacular/ (viewed March 2019)

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Information about cannabis for epilepsy is rapidly changing.

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