Trends & Articles The First FDA Approved Cannabis Based-Medication Epidiolex Becomes Available in the U.S. by Sophia Vida November 02, 2018 It was just this past summer that the Food and Drug Administration approved GW Pharmaceuticals' Epidiolex, the first cannabis-based drug to treat twot ypes of epileptic syndroms: Dravet syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. It ...