COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The doctors were out of ideas to help 5-year-old Charlotte Figi.
Suffering from a
rare genetic disorder, she had as many as 300 grand mal seizures a
week, used a wheelchair, went into repeated cardiac arrest and could
barely speak. As a last resort, her mother began calling medical
marijuana shops.
Two years
later, Charlotte is largely seizure-free and able to walk, talk and feed
herself after taking oil infused with a special pot strain. Her
recovery has inspired both a name for the strain of marijuana she takes
that is bred not to make users high — Charlotte's Web — and an influx of
families with seizure-stricken children to Colorado from states that
ban the drug.
"She can walk,
talk; she ate chili in the car," her mother, Paige Figi, said as her
dark-haired daughter strolled through a cavernous greenhouse full of
marijuana plants that will later be broken down into their anti-seizure
components and mixed with olive oil so patients can consume them. "So
I'll fight for whoever wants this."
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