Medical Marijuana: For Parents of Sick Children, It's Move or Break the Law Matthew Charles Cardinale - Inter Press Service
go to original March 23, 2014

Dr Sanjay Gupta's "WEED 2" Documentary (MOXNEWSd0tC0M)

... An estimated 36,284 people moved to Colorado in 2013, almost 8,000 more than the year before, according to the Daily Beast. A good part of this increase is believed to be due to families migrating for medical cannabis, legal recreational cannabis, and cannabis-related business opportunities.

At least 200 families moved after cannibis oil was featured in a documentary called “Weed” by Dr. Sanjay Gupta of the cable television news station CNN.

One is the Clarks, whose 10-year-old son Caden has Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, a catastrophic form of epilepsy that causes him to have seizures from 10 to 20 times a day.

“He’s never had a seizure-free day in his life, ever,” said Caden’s mother, Kim Clark.

Kim moved with Caden from Georgia to Colorado after trying everything the legal medical community had to offer: prescription medications with severe side effects; a starvation diet; severing the brain hemispheres; even a partial lobotomy.

“We are not anti-science people. We are very pro-science people. Our child has had a lobotomy per science. It just didn’t work for him,” she told IPS.

The Clarks are on a waiting list for cannabis oil and said they had just received a phone call that their medicine might be ready as early as next week.

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