Healthcare: GW Pharma Poised for First FDA Marijuana Approval
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2018
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Promo: GW Pharmaceuticals scores a big thumbs up from a panel of FDA experts for its marijuana-based drug. Plus, Biogen pays a $1 billion dollars for expanded access to Ionis’ novel pipeline.
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| 0:20.4 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dies into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:25.0 | We're talking health care today, April 25th. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm your host, Christine Harjus. |
| 0:29.0 | My usual guest Todd Campbell is taking a well-deserved vacation so instead joining me in |
| 0:33.9 | studio today is Motley Fool health care analyst Shannon Jones. Shannon it's |
| 0:38.1 | the first time we've ever done a show together and I am thrilled to have you here. |
| 0:41.2 | Yes not nearly as thrilled as I am, Christine. |
| 0:43.8 | So excited to be here on the show with you today. |
| 0:46.1 | Awesome. |
| 0:46.9 | We're going to be digging into Biogen |
| 0:48.6 | and its most recent deal with IONAS. |
| 0:50.4 | But first, let's kick off with some discussion of a topic we heard some demand for on our Twitter account at |
| 0:55.5 | MF Industry Focus some developments for the largest cannabis-based drug maker GW Pharmaceuticals. Shannon, what is the latest? |
| 1:04.3 | Yeah, so last Thursday, April the 19th, 419, not 420, |
| 1:10.8 | GW Pharmaceuticals had an advisory committee meeting and that meeting actually turned out pretty well, |
| 1:17.8 | pretty in favor of the company. |
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