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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 Ogden Family Urges Lawmakers to Debate Utah's Medical Marijuana Bills Monday 🌿Ogden Family Urges Lawmakers to Debate Utah's Medical Marijuana Bills Monday
SALT LAKE CITY — How Utah lawmakers vote on medical marijuana next week will in large part determine future plans for Lindsay Sledge and her husband.
Their youngest daughter, 2-year-old Paloma, suffers from Dravet Syndrome, which causes severe and frequent seizures. The family of five moved to Ogden about 18 months ago.
“With Charlee’s Law we were hopeful we’d be able to get cannabis. We thought OK this will be a great place, we bought a house, we plan to stay here and be part of the community. We have a lot riding on this,” Sledge said.
In 2014, the Utah Legislature passed HB105, known as Charlee’s Law, which allowed Utahns with epilepsy to possess and use hemp oil containing less than 3 percent Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive component in cannabis.
Unfortunately, Sledge found that Paloma required a higher level of THC to maintain a reasonable quality of life.
“Without it,
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