Parents Flocking to Colorado For Medical Marijuana

There have been lots of recent reports of people with illnesses that can be eased with medical marijuana flocking to Colorado in order to get the medicine that they deserve, for one thing this is great because these people actually have a solution for their problems. On the other hand it’s terrible because they have to leave their homes and move to a place where they are strangers, and people really shouldn't have to come to these drastic measures just to get some relief from their medical ailments. We have seen no numbers but we wonder how many sick and elderly are planning to leave Florida for Colorado for this very purpose? The biggest stories focus on parents who have children who are afflicted with severe forms of epilepsy that have seizures so often it makes life unbearable, if you doubt this then you need to see the special by Dr. Sanjay Gupta on CNN that documents this medical phenomenon.

One of the primary examples featured in the media is Greta Botker who at only seven years old has been on a long list of dangerous and expensive pharmaceuticals such as Felbatol, Keppra, Prednisone, Onfi, and Depakote. She has been on strict diets and even subjected to brain surgery, none of these things worked to relieve her from these seizures except medical marijuana. There are some guys in Colorado that are growing a strain of marijuana called Charlotte’s Web that has low concentrations of THC, so the user doesn’t get much of a high but still has the effect of slowing down the seizures that these children are experiencing. For this reason the Charlotte’s Web strain is nothing short of a miracle drug, not only should they be able to sell this strain but they should be allowed to ship it to anyone in the world that needs it! I certainly hope in the future that parents with sick children will be allowed to grow this for their personal use, since it really is of no use to us regular potheads. Since is seems like medical marijuana is heading to Florida later this year, hopefully in 2015 parents in this state will also have access to Charlotte’s Web and it also be grown in facilities around the state. The focus has been on its ability to help children afflicted with epilepsy, but there certainly have to be other ailments that it can also reduce of the suffering of its victims.