An Edmonton-area mother is challenging an attempt by the Alberta government to legally bar her four-year-old daughter from receiving a marijuana treatment the mother says has successfully quelled her daughter’s debilitating epileptic seizures. “I feel violated and bullied to take away the one thing that gives her a life,” the mother told CBC News. Neither […]
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Canada: Mother Fights To Keep Child On Marijuana Treatment That Quells Seizures
An Edmonton-area mother is challenging an attempt by the Alberta government to legally bar her four-year-old daughter from receiving a marijuana treatment the mother says has successfully quelled her daughter’s debilitating epileptic seizures. “I feel violated and bullied to take away the one thing that gives her a life,” the mother told CBC News. Neither […]
Cannabis Oil Combats Toddler’s Seizures In Canada
A Summerland family of a three year old girl who has been fed marijuana oil to combat her seizures for the past year says she has made drastic improvements. Kyla Williams’ grandmother Elaine Nuessler says the oil greatly reduced the hundreds of seizures she suffered every day. The child is now off all pharmaceutical drugs. […]
Medical Marijuana: Florida Parents Fight To Help Children Suffering With Seizures
Nicolas Peruyero was 8 years old, blind and unable to walk or talk when his mother saw a documentary about the benefits of medical marijuana and its promise to reduce seizures. For a few moments, Nancy Peruyero imagined what Nicolas’ life might be like without the relentless myoclonic seizures every day. And for the first […]
U.K. – Baby Who Suffers From Rare Form Of Epilepsy Given Cannabis Oil For Seizures
A 10-month-old boy who suffers from a rare form of epilepsy is being treated with cannabis. Oliver Osborn has migrating partial epilepsy, provoking up to 100 seizures a day. Victims rarely live beyond the age of seven. However, in a desperate bid to find a cure, his parents are raising money to afford a new […]
Success Stories Of Kids Fighting Seizures With Cannabis Oil
The Swann family moved from Alabama to Colorado last fall to try save their daughter’s life with marijuana. It appears to have worked. And in the process, the Swanns and others like them have changed laws across the country so more children can have the same chance. Fourteen-year-old Allie Swann was having up to 100 […]
Saudi Hashish Seizures: Taliban Blowback?
The arch-puritanical rulers of Saudi Arabia can't be happy about this. A Saudi border patrol ship intercepted a boat loaded with a half-ton of hashish bound for the kingdom's shores on the Persian Gulf Sept. 6 — after an exchange of fire with the crew, in which t… High Times
Could Pot Stop This Baby’s Seizures?
Toronto parents struggling with baby Kaitlyn’s Dravet syndrome call for clinical trials here after miraculous results in Colorado. Kaitlyn Pogson has lived through more seizures than calendar months. The 9-month-old’s epilepsy sends her tiny body into convulsions that last up to an hour. Right now they happen every three days, but as she grows the […]
US Pot Seizures, Eradication on the Rise
The US government has burned millions upon millions of marijuana plants during the War on Drugs. And Americans have responded by growing more and more pot every year. According to a recent United Nations report, the US government is linking the rise in dome… High Times