Dad fights for access to marijuana for epileptic son
NEVADA COUNTY, CA (KTRK) --
Eight-year-old Silas Hurd has his good days and his bad days.
Video of Hurd is hard to watch as he suffers from debilitating seizures.
His father, Forrest Hurd, took video of his son as he lay disabled so people can see why he says the boy needs medicinal marijuana.
"The county has banned any production," Forrest Hurd says.
Silas has a rare type of epilepsy resistant to many medications, but after many tries, his family found a compound of cannabis, a medicinal oil, that kept his seizures in check.
"Before we found the strain, we didn't think Silas was going to make it through the year," Forrest says. "He was having 50 seizures a day, and nothing was helping."
Silas' medication was being produced by a volunteer collective, but his dad says that outdoor production is now illegal.
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