Did You Know, Two Jamaican Research Scientists Developed a Breakthrough Medication for the Treatment of the Eye Disease Glaucoma

In the 1990s, Jamaican research pioneers Dr. Albert Lockhart and Professor Manley West began the development of a substance they came to call Canasol, a marijuana-based medicine that works to reduce intraocular pressure without the adverse side-effects imposed by other treatments. This breakthrough drug was the first glaucoma medication in the Caribbean to be developed […]