Epileptic girl challenges Mexico medical marijuana ban
Just eight years old, Graciela could become Mexico's first authorized consumer of medical marijuana to alleviate the hundreds of epileptic seizures that strike her small frame every day.
A judge last month gave her desperate parents permission to get a cannabis oil despite the government's opposition in a country engulfed in a bloody drug war.
Her parents have tried a slew of treatments, including brain surgery, to ease their daughter's pain, but nothing has worked and her condition has worsened.
They now hope that cannabidiol (CBD), a cannabis compound, can finally help her -- if they can get it.
Grace, who lives in the northern industrial hub of Monterrey, has a severe form of epilepsy known as the Lennox-Gastaut syndrome.
The brown-eyed girl moves around in a pink wheelchair, with her parents tending to her every need.
"When she was a year and half, Grace would...
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