It’s something Dylan Morley has waited on for a long time, a law that allows him to legally get a strain of medical marijuana oil for his daughter. Mia Morley, 7, suffers from intractable epilepsy. She is not able to walk or talk, and can experience multiple seizures in just a few minutes. On Thursday, […]
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Growing Hope: The Fight For Medical Marijuana For Epileptic Kids
January 22nd 2015 was a brisk, cold day. All the trees in Richmond, Virginia were bare from a harsh winter. As the chill blew up the hill in the city’s historic Shockoe Slip district, several families began to emerge from a hotel in the shadow of the State Capitol. Lisa Smith was there with her […]
NBC’s Dateline Sheds Light on Cannabis Oil for Epileptic Kids
NBC's Dateline premiered a new medical marijuana documentary, "Growing Hope," Sunday night, which shared the struggles of families in Virginia fighting to get their epileptic kids access to cannabis oil. Its time slotmade it the first-ever marijuana do… Read article here: High Times
New Canadian Rules Force Epileptic Boy to Smoke Marijuana?
Recent changes to Health Canada’s medical marijuana regulations have forced a six-year-old boy suffering from Dravet syndrome to smoke marijuana in order to tame his seizures rather than use cannabis oil. Ever since the Canadian health agency made the decision to pr… High Times
Epileptic N.J. Toddler’s Family to Move to Colorado
Meghan and Brian Wilson of Scotch Plains, New Jersey, got the best Christmas gift they could ask for this year — the hope that their daughter Vivian will get to grow up. They just thought Vivian would grow up to be a Jersey girl, not a Rocky Mountain girl. High Times