Marijuana stops child's severe seizures
Running out of options, doctors put Charlotte on a ketogenic diet that is frequently used to treat epilepsy. The diet helped but had a lot of side effects. Young reported, “Charlotte suffered from bone loss, her immune system plummeted, and new behavioral problems started popping up.” Two years later, the seizures came back and by three, Charlotte was having up to 300 grand mal seizures a week. She had lost the ability to walk, talk and eat.
Desperate for a treatment, Charlotte’s father Matt searched the Internet and eventually found a boy with a similar case in which medical marijuana helped his seizures. The Figi’s turned to the Stanley brothers, one of Colorado's largest marijuana growers and dispensary owners, for help.
“These six brothers were crossbreeding a strain of marijuana low in THC, the compound in marijuana that's psychoactive, and high in CBD, which has medicinal properties but no psychoactivity,” writes Young. But the Stanley brothers didn't know what to do with this particular strain, as no one seemed to want to buy it. Then they met Charlotte.
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No one seemed to want it. Because it wouldn't get them high.
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A New Marijuana Plant Without the High? It Could Be Good Medicine
The new medical marijuana plant, developed by Israeli researchers, holds promise for treating conditions like anxiety, depression, schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease — without causing the munchies.
The Internet is buzzing about a new breed of marijuana that apparently causes no buzz of its own. Israeli researchers have bred cannabis plants that look, smell and taste like ordinary marijuana — but lack THC, the active ingredient responsible for the spacy, giddy and sometimes hallucinatory part of pot’s high.
What’s the point of weed that doesn’t get you high, you ask? The new product could potentially fight conditions ranging from schizophrenia to Alzheimer’s disease.
The new marijuana isn’t just low-THC ditch weed or hemp by a different name. Tzahi Klein of the Israeli company Tikkun Olam and his colleagues have created a strain of pot that lacks THC but is abundant in cannabidiol (CBD), typically the second most common active compound in cannabis.
“It has the same scent, shape and taste as the original plant — it’s all the same — but the numbing sensation that users are accustomed to has disappeared,” Klein told the Israeli paper Maariv. He said that many patients in his studies felt “tricked” because they thought they’d been given a placebo when they smoked it.
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