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Marijuana relieves 6-year-old of epileptic seizures

• Yahoo! News blog
 
Most parents in the United States try their hardest to keep their kids from using marijuana. But not little Charlotte Figi's mother. The 6-year-old from Colorado has Dravet syndrome, a rare form of epilepsy, which causes debilitating seizures. In the past, her seizures inhibited Charlotte from eating or even getting out of her wheelchair. After trying just about every possible treatment, Charlotte's family found the only remedy that seems to quell the seizures has been medical marijuana.

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