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  Nine Year Old Texas Girl 22 Days Seizure-Free with Cannabis Oil

  March 28, 2015 at 2:33 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Medical Marijuana

  DALLAS – Nine-year-old Alexis Bortell wants to be the poster girl who gets medical marijuana legalized in the Lone Star State. “I think that it should be legal in Texas because every child should live a normal life,” Alexis Bortell told NewsFix last month. We first talked to Alexis a year ago. For most of her life, she’s been dealing with daily epileptic seizures. Her parents were told by a specialist and doctors medical cannabis might stop them. But getting the drug [...]

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  Texas: Fight to Legalize Marijuana Led by 9 Year-old Girl

  January 22, 2015 at 12:49 pm / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  AUSTIN — Alexis Bortell will tell you she’s a pretty normal kid. The 9-year old from Rowlett enjoys cartoons, playing with her younger sister and playing golf. Yet in addition to the usual concerns of a kid her age, she’s also fighting a life and death battle against epilepsy. Alexis’ father Dean Bortell, a U.S. Navy veteran, says Alexis’ first seizure happened at their Rowlett, Texas home in July 2013. “We were folding clothes and all of a sudden I [...]

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  The Hope of Children Fueling the Cannabis Extract Movement

  October 21, 2014 at 1:25 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana, Recreational Marijuana

  The use of cannabis extract medicine to treat children for cancer and epilepsy has been growing rapidly since the release of Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s documentary on CNN.  In the original documentary, Charlotte Figi’s recovery from Dravet syndrome was extensively detailed.  Before using high-cannabidiol cannabis oil, Charlotte was having up to 300 grand mal seizures a week.  Using the strain now named after her, Charlotte’s Web, those seizures have dropped to about two per month.  In Sanjay Gupta’s sequel, Weed 2: [...]

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  Meet The Children Who Rely On Marijuana To Survive

  February 13, 2014 at 6:05 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  Since he was just a few months old, 10-year-old Zaki Jackson has suffered from a rare form of epilepsy that, at its worst, causes him to have thousands of seizures a day. The seizures, which his mother describes as a “full body electrocution,” render him unable to talk or walk, and sometimes cause him to stop breathing. Over the past decade, his family has tried to combat his syndrome with 17 different pharmaceutical medications, a specialized diet and alternative forms [...]

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