![]() ![]() Professor of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine Tim Hackett, also from Colorado State University, has treated hundreds of animals brought in with marijuana toxicity after eating their owner's stash. Not much, as it turns out, unless they eat a lot of other dangerous stuff as well.Ĭannabis is legal in Colorado for recreational purposes as well as medical treatment. What happens if a pet overdoses on cannabis? Some hemp-based products, which include very low levels of THC and do not affect an animal's mental state, are available in Australia.īut the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority has not approved a single medicinal cannabis product for veterinary use in Australia and, in a statement, said that before any were authorised they would have to meet the statutory criteria, including safety and efficacy. The company told the Australian Securities Exchange: "A total reduction in veterinary lameness scoring was observed in all dogs treated with CPAT-01, showing improvement over time, which was numerically better for treated dogs compared with placebo." The randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial tested the effects of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) - the psychoactive compound in cannabis - and CBD on the mood, pain and lameness of the dogs over eight weeks. Australia lagging behindĪn Australian medicinal cannabis company that sources some of its raw materials from Tasmania, Auscann, recently completed a clinical trial in the US that looked at 46 dogs with osteoarthritis. ![]() ![]() The CBD treatment also came without the liver disease and pancreatitis that can accompany anti-convulsive therapies.Ī previous study looking at the effectiveness of medicinal cannabis on osteoarthritis in dogs was less convincing, but Dr McGrath is lining up another project to look at that nexus again later this year. "In the US there's an FDA-approved medicine for children with epilepsy and it was exciting to show that it may have a very similar effect in dogs as well." "It really gave us a lot of hope that CBD might be a promising anti-convulsive for companion animals," Dr McGrath said. ![]()
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