How medical cannabis gave little Liam, age eight, a life back
Monday we brought you the story of a desperate mother who, after all else failed, began treating her daughter’s chronic respiratory condition with cannabis oil.
She was rewarded with a police investigation and a heart-stopping intervention from child welfare authorities that forced the end of the experiment.
Today, a story that worked out differently. Mandy McKnight gives her son Liam cannabis every day. He’s only eight. Without it, she’s not sure he’d even be alive today.
“It was really life-changing. No question.”
Liam, the youngest of three, suffers from Dravet syndrome, a severe form of epilepsy that left him coping with as many as 70 seizures a day and in a near-catatonic state from powerful medications. “Before we started cannabis, he hadn’t had a seizure-free day in two years.”
Within days of trying cannabis oil in 2013, the number of seizures dramatically decreased and his overall health began to improve. He is now stable and back to school....
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