India’s first Cannabis medicine project

July 26, 2023

CSIR-IIIM Jammu is set to lead India’s first Cannabis Medicine Project, exploring a diverse array of medicinal uses for cannabis.
It has been initiated under the leadership of Ministry of Science & Technology in Private Public Partnership with a Canadian firm.
Cannabis has a great potential to put substance of abuse for the good of mankind especially for patients suffering from neuropathies, cancer and epilepsy, malignancies.
This project of CSIR-IIIM is also important from the perspective of Atma- Nirbhar Bharat as it will be able to produce export quality drugs meant for different kinds of neuropathies, diabetic pains etc.