Israel: Marijuana gives hope to parents of brain-damaged baby
A family in Israel is using medical marijuana to treat their son's chronic health conditions.
It's their last hope, after many other treatments failed to bring the toddler any relief.
For two and a half year old Lavie Parush, moments of joy are all too brief.
Diagnosed with severe epilepsy and cerebral palsy from birth, leaving him with brain damage, he suffered seizures, dozens a day. Now they're nearly all gone, with just a few drops a day of medical marijuana-- cannabis oil-mixed with into his food.
"We saw a difference immediately and after a few weeks, we didn't see any seizures at all," Lavie's father Asaf Parush says.
Other medicines didn't work, his father says or worse, caused severe side effects. Lavie has now been on medical cannabis for a year and a half.
This cannabis oil was developed in northern Israel. The oil is high in CBD, the...
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