Ottawa boy relies on homemade cannabis oil to calm 'catastrophic' seizures
Health Canada has not approved sale of what mother calls 'life-saving medicine'
A seven-year-old Ottawa boy who uses cannabis oil to alleviate seizures caused by a rare form of epilepsy can't get the treatment from a local producer, so his mother is making it herself.
It costs the McKnights roughly $1,300 a month to make cannabis oil at home for their seven-year-old son Liam. (Waubgeshig Rice/CBC)
Liam McKnight suffers from Dravet syndrome, a condition causing frequent and severe seizures that often last for minutes.
"It's catastrophic epilepsy," said his mother, Mandy McKnight. "On a bad day, he was having upwards of 50, 60, 70 seizures a day."
The seizures would leave her son "catatonic" and unable to eat, sleep, walk, or go to the bathroom, according to McKnight.
Seizures diminished
But the regularity of his seizures greatly diminished when Liam started taking...
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