DEA stubbornly claims cannabis has no medicinal value, despite a growing body of serious research that finds otherwise. This post from Entrepreneur.com covers scientific evidence of the benefits of CBD. A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine has found marijuana helped reduced seizures in patients with a rare form of epilepsy. The study, published in ... Continue Reading
Epilepsy
CBD Quells a Young Girl’s Non-Stop Seizures
A 12-year-old girl gets a second shot at life because CBD helped quell her non-stop seizures. This post from Medical Daily shares the miraculous story. Earlier this year, doctors feared the worst when a young girl with a rare form of epilepsy began experiencing non-stop seizures and had to be placed in a medically induced coma. No treatments worked until she was given the ... Continue Reading
A Medical Cannabis Patient as Young as 2 Months
Meet the world’s youngest medical cannabis patient ever, two months old Amylea. This post from Green Rush Daily reveals how CBD oil proved effective in stopping her seizures. At Children’s Hospital Colorado, a two-month-old baby who suffers from violent seizures has become the world’s youngest infant treated with CBD oil. A few days after Amylea Nuñez was born on December 7, ... Continue Reading
CBD Treatment for Rare and Severe Epilepsy
Cannabidiol, which is found in marijuana, may help people who get certain types of seizures. This post from Live Science shares how CBD treatment benefited the patients. A drug made from marijuana that does not produce a "high" may help reduce seizures in people with certain types of epilepsy that are difficult to treat, new research suggests. In two new studies, ... Continue Reading
Child Patients in Need of Safe Access to CBD
Children suffering from Dravet Syndrome have a remarkable reduction in seizures, if they get safe access to CBD. This post from VolteFace brings to the fore child victims of the CBD ban. Sophia Gibson, a five year old girl from Northern Ireland, suffers from a rare form of epilepsy called Dravet Syndrome. Sophia has recently been accepted onto hospital trials to test the ... Continue Reading