claim: every child in colorado who has been given medical marijuana for treatment for seizures has had diminished seizure activity.
author: allen peake
evidence_1: aug 7, 2013 ... charlotte figi was having 300 grand mal seizures a week. the child's doctors  were out of options, so the family decided to try medical marijuana. ... say  charlotte is now thriving and seizures have been reduced to one a day ..... many  times, she's had so much brain damage from seizure activity and likely the ...
evidence_2: dec 31, 2017 ... different cannabis strains have been bred either to maximize thc content or, ....  may contribute to the anti-seizure activity reported for medical marijuana .... of  years, and cannabis preparations had a role in the treatment of epilepsy by ...  their child to have fewer seizures while on cbd-enriched cannabis, ...
evidence_3: the use of cannabis to treat children with epilepsy ... to be frequently effective  in controlling seizure activity, and very low levels of thc, the ... state lines, even  to other states that permit use of marijuana for medical purposes. ... a variety of  products containing cbd have been used to treat children with severe epilepsy.
evidence_4: inside the quasi-legal science-free world of medical marijuana for children. ... a  neurological disorder that causes frequent seizures and long-term damage to  brain ... multiple times a day, she's “like a robot whose plug has been pulled,”  says her father. .... mirzabegian's daughter emily had her first seizure when she  was five ...
evidence_5: feb 17, 2014 ... at 7, she's been on a cocktail of medications for her epilepsy: onfi, depakote, ...  nothing reduced the 15 or so seizures she had every day since she was 5 ... in  all, the foundation has more than 300 medical marijuana patients, 200 of ... so  she can use marijuana to manage her post-traumatic stress disorder.