About CanniMed Ltd.
CanniMed Ltd. was the first producer to be licensed under the Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations (MMPR) and has the longest growing history as a result of the parent company, Prairie Plant Systems Inc., being the sole supplier for the entirety of Health Canada’s former medical marijuana program.
Prairie Plant Systems, the cultivation arm of the company, follows Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) regulations, the criteria used to manufacture all pharmaceuticals in Canada. This industry-leading production excellence, including a 281-point quality control process, ensures product consistency and patient safety.
The company has a strong corporate priority to design and execute clinical research that will close the gap between the anecdotal benefit and evidence based medicine in order to standardize care. Prairie Plant Systems is the only Licensed Producer whose cannabis has already been used in two published clinical trials.
A randomized, controlled trial of smoked cannabis for chronic neuropathic pain – this study found that a single inhalation of 25 mg of 9.4% THC herbal cannabis three times daily for five days reduced the intensity of pain, improved sleep quality, reduced anxiety and was well tolerated.
The results of this study were used in the development of the Canadian Pain Society’s Pharmacological management of chronic neuropathic pain: Revised consensus statement positioning medical cannabis as third line treatment for neuropathic pain.
A randomized controlled trial of herbal cannabis on chronic non-cancer pain – this was the first and largest study looking at the long term safety of medical cannabis use by patients suffering from chronic pain. Patients were given access to herbal cannabis containing 12.5% THC (CanniMed 12.0) and were followed over one year. The researchers found that patients with chronic pain, who used cannabis daily for one year, when carefully monitored, did not have an increase in serious adverse events compared to pain patients who did not use cannabis. This study was published in the Journal of Pain.
Patient recruitment has begun on the Health Canada approved CAPRI Trial (Cannabinoid Profile Investigation of Vaporized Cannabis in Patients with Osteoarthritis of the Knee), a randomized, double blind, placebo controlled, proof-of-concept, crossover clinical trial of single dose vaporized cannabis in adults with painful osteoarthritis of the knee.
For more information, please visit our website: www.cannimed.ca
