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02/19/14 12:33 PM

#86732 RE: DeDe3 #86724

Special strain of marijuana aids kids with seizures
By Nicholas Riccardi THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wednesday, February 19, 2014



http://www.usnews.com/news/science/news/articles/2014/02/18/kids-with-seizures-use-pot-as-treatment

The benefit of CDB's are going to aid so many., and for PJ
to have the chemist's D Gold and Dr Apel... well... I don't know how to put that
into words...


For many, Charlotte's story was something they couldn't ignore.

Her father, Matt, a former Green Beret who took a job as a contractor working in Afghanistan, started looking online for ways to help his daughter and thought they should give pot a try. But there was a danger: Marijuana's psychoactive ingredient, THC, can trigger seizures.

The drug also contains another chemical known as CBD that may have seizure-fighting properties. In October, the Food and Drug Administration approved testing a British pharmaceutical firm's marijuana-derived drug that is CBD-based and has all its THC removed.

Few dispensaries stock CBD-heavy weed that doesn't get you high. Then Paige Figi found Joel Stanley. Stanley and his brothers provide the marijuana to nearly 300 patients and have a waitlist of 2,000.