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Girl's seizures spur medical marijuana legislation in Georgia

Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 04/16/2015 - 01:37

Story highlights

  • Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal is expected to sign a medical marijuana bill at 11 a.m. Thursday
  • The bill is inspired by Haleigh Cox, a 5-year-old whose seizures threatened her life

"This means the world to us," said Haleigh Cox's mother, Janea Cox.

Gov. Nathan Deal is scheduled on Thursday to sign a bill that will legalize low-THC cannabis oil for certain "medication-resistant epilepsies," while creating an infrastructure, registration process and research program for the drug. (THC is the primary psychoactive substance in marijuana.)

The bill is dubbed Haleigh's Hope Act.

Haleigh, who has been the face of the bill, was having hundreds of seizures a day and the five potent drugs meant to control them weren't making life better for the little girl.

Janea Cox said in a March 2014 interview that she made the difficult decision to move her daughter to Colorado in...

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