Despite research showing cannabidiol can help people suffering with depression, anxiety and epilepsy, doctors are unwilling to prescribe it for children.
A SOUTH Australian man with an incurable brain tumour says the cannabis oil he was receiving from raided supplier Jenny Hallam was the only medicine that gave him any quality of life.
Jackson Leyden had always been a healthy kid; he practiced taekwondo, and he played lacrosse and baseball. But in 2011, a few months after his eighth birthday, he began having seizures several times a day.
The use of medical marijuana in hospitals remains in limbo nearly a year after state-sanctioned companies began dispensing it from licensed locations around the state.
Medical marijuana could finally become a reality next year in Maryland, one of the states slowest to make the drug available for purchase after legalizing sales.