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When Charlotte Figli or Charlie, as her parents call her was just 3 months old, she suffered a seizure as her dad was bathing her and her twin brother Chase. It turned out to be the first of many. Eventually, she was diagnosed with Dravet Syndrome, a rare form of epilepsy that resulted in her suffering over 300 seizures each week.

2, she really started to decline cognitively, Charlotte mom Paige tells CNN. it was the medicines or the seizures, it was happening, it was obvious. And she was slipping away. has significant cognitive and motor delays, brain damage, a surgically placed feeding tube for water and food, struggles to walk and talk, and needs full care in all areas of life, Paige, also mom to Charlie and Chase big brother Max, explains. failing most anti epileptic pharmaceuticals, we were told she had the end of the road, that there was little left to try, and neurologists removed her last remaining, failed drug. and Matt went in desperate search of other options that might help their daughter, who was by then 5 years old. They eventually stumbled across a story about a California couple who had success treating their epileptic son with cannabis.

got busy doing my research, says Paige, who lives in Colorado, a state where medical marijuana use has been legalized. She learned about the Stanley brothers, the so called Hoods of marijuana, who were growing a strain of the plant that was high in cannabidiol, which is packed with medicinal properties but without the that is normally associated with cannabis.

The Stanley brothers, who operate the non profit Realm of Caring Foundation, provided the drug to the Figlis for next to nothing. Charlotte parents say that the results were overwhelming.

first week she went 7 days seizure free, down from the 300 grand mals she had the previous week, says Paige. months into our journey put her at 99%+ seizure reduction. 6 years old, the little girl who doctors had recommended be put into a medically induced coma is walking, talking, dancing, painting, even riding a bike.

didn hear her laugh for six months, says Paige. didn hear her [url=http://www.womenbootsforcheap.top]UGGs For Women voice at all, just her crying. I can imagine that I would be watching her making these gains that she making, doing the things that she doing (without the medical marijuana). I don take it for granted. Every day is a blessing. Paige admits she voted against legalizing medical marijuana, having seen first hand the remarkable changes in their daughter she and her husband want to scream it from the rooftops. I want other people, other parents, to know that this is a viable option. already convinced CNN resident expert Dr. Sanja Gupta, who in the past has spoken out against the use of medical marijuana. Having spent time with Charlotte and others like her, though, he says that he to the realization that it is irresponsible not to provide the best care we can as a medical community, care that could involve marijuana. We have been terribly and systematically misled for nearly 70 years in the United States, and I apologize for my own role in that.

Later when I had a meeting with my professor we discussed why it was made illegal in the first place. She told me that at one time it was legal but certain racial groups started using it and the government banned it.

I have smoked since college and I have no desire to again, but I do feel like people are using it for its medicinal properties and its really helping them like the girl in this story then it should be made legal by the federal government and not just state government. I can imagine how hard it was on the mother in article to see her child suffering like that, so to find something that has pretty [url=http://www.womenbootsforcheap.top/cheap-women-ugg-boots-c-1/ugg-classic-sho... boots 5825 classic short taken all her symptoms away and improved her quality of life is amazing. I don care how stigmatized this drug is it helped this little girl and that is truly a blessing.

Catherina, I survived a brain injury I shouldn have. I now suffer from seizures. Your comment be produced as a drug It is. Dilantin,Keppra, Lamictal synthetically do what Marijuana does naturally. However, using those pharmaceuticals put you at risk of Kidney failure,Liver cancer. Your skin literally separating from your body that results in a lethal rash. (Lamictal) I had them all with no positive results. I used Marijuana the other day. The only negative was it burned my tongue because my tongue is full of holes from biting it during grandmals. 3 days and counting. No seizure.

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