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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 Early results of marijuana extract treatment for children with epilepsy prove promising 🌿Early results of marijuana extract treatment for children with epilepsy prove promising
For a number of years now, families of children with epilepsy have been relocating to Colorado from around the world to try to obtain a special marijuana extract known as "Charlotte's Web" that they had heard had an almost magical ability to reduce seizures. In late 2013 and early 2014, as the political movement to legalize medical marijuana was heating up, many of these parents traveled to state capitals around the country to plead for help in getting access to similar treatments. More than a few legislatures, regardless of their stance on marijuana, were so moved by the stories that they acquiesced.
The reaction from the scientific community was more cautious.
Some researchers dismissed the reports of recoveries — shared widely on social media — as wishful thinking. Others launched clinical trials to try to figure out what was going on.
Early results, unveiled at the American Epilepsy Society's annual meeting in Philadelphia this week, are encouraging.
The first study, led by Orrin Devinsky, director of the comprehensive epilepsy...
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