Parents Find Success Treating Kids’ Epilepsy, Autism with Cannabis Oil
But lack of research, poor industry standards and few doctors willing to prescribe mean parents left to experiment to find consistent dosages
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This is The First U.S. School to Allow Marijuana for Disabled Students
“I know there are so many kids in this state and across the country who can benefit from this.”
4-Year-Old Girl Becoming the Face of Medical Marijuana in Ohio
For weeks, the face of Issue 3 has been a young girl and her family, who moved from Ohio to Colorado to legally get medical marijuana.
25 Idaho Children to Take Part in Cannabis Oil Program
25 children will be selected to take part in the program and they will be those with the most severe cases of epilepsy. Neurologists will refer patients and the hope is that the medicine works and will lead to it becoming FDA approved.
Medicinal Cannabis could be Legally Available by 2016
Medicinal cannabis could be legally grown and prescribed to patients as early as next year under a cross party bill that has attracted initial support from Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
Australian Family Leaves Home for Life-Changing Cannabis Oil Treatments in B.C.
An Australian family who moved their terminally ill daughters to Victoria to legally use cannabis oil says the girls’ lives have been transformed by the drug – but it might not last.
Children with Epilepsy the First for Medical Cannabis
Approved growers would be able to cultivate medicinal cannabis and pharmacists to dispense marijuana products to treat people with chronic illness under landmark changes to Victorian law aimed at helping children and adults with otherwise untreatable conditions.
Cannabis for kids seminar in Richmond aims to help parents of kids with autism, epilepsy
VANCOUVER — Kim Turkington’s five-year-old daughter Ella was so heavily medicated for seizures last year, she slept most of the day, her waking hours spent in a deep state of melancholy.
Parents Demand Medical Marijuana for Epileptic Kids
PITTSBURGH — In room 716 of the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, 12-year-old Hannah Pallas is motionless, but for an occasional turn of her head and blink of her eyes, following a series of life-threatening seizures.
What the Medical Marijuana Debate Is Really About
The debate goes on — yes or no to medical marijuana?
