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Cannabis spray provides welcome relief in fight against debilitating disease.
Medicinal cannabis has provided a breakthrough for a teen battling a rare brain illness, but the cost of the unregistered, unfunded drug could prevent the youngster getting long-term treatment.
Carterton's Grace Yeats, 13, was an active, playful youngster until May 2012, when she was hit by severe basal ganglia necrosis, a brain disease that left her cognitively unimpaired, but unable to walk or talk, and wracked by painful spasms.
But she found some much-needed relief when she was approved last month for medicinal cannabis spray Sativex, the only cannabis-based treatment legally available in New Zealand.
Grace's mother Tracy said her daughter's pain, mood and ability to control her movements had noticeably improved, especially when it came to using the iPad communication app she has taught herself to operate.
"Before, she would come up with one word [on the app]...
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