Category Archives: Medical

Epileptic girl, Colorado, dramatically improved due to medical marijuana

CASTLE ROCK, Colo. - A 3-year-old girl who has epileptic seizures has made a dramatic improvement since moving to Colorado to be treated with medical marijuana, her parents say. Addyson Benton was diagnosed with Intractable Myoclonic Epilepsy when she was 9 months old. "Her first EEG’s showed that she was seizing over 1,000 times a…
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Medical marijuana seen to have dramatic effect on symptom relief

EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, N.J. - Before buying cannabis at South Jersey's only medical-marijuana dispensary, patients must circle one of six animated faces that stare out from a clipboard. The row of smiling, wincing, frowning, and sobbing cartoon faces is being used to rank the degree of pain that patients experience due to cancer, multiple sclerosis,…
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