Alberta Girl Denied Marijuana For Epilepsy Gets Help In St. Catharines

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http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/canada/story/1.3228520

 

"In 2013, Sandra Wilkinson had started extracting cannabis oil from dried marijuana — purchased from a licensed grower with a prescription from a neurologist at Alberta Children's Hospital — to prevent life-threatening seizures in her eight-year-old daughter Mia.

 

But in July, the physician declined to renew the prescription because of a hospital policy based on the position of Alberta Health Services, the provincial health authority, which does not support the use of medical marijuana for pediatric patients with epilepsy.

 

Wilkinson said the cannabis oil is the only therapy that has worked to stop Mia's seizures, caused by a rare type of epilepsy called Ohtahara syndrome.

 

Despite taking 30 to 40 anti-convulsive pills daily, Mia would suffer up to 100 seizures a day, said her mother. But since starting daily doses of oral cannabis oil 19 months ago, she has not had a single seizure.

 

On Monday, Mia was seen by a doctor at the Canadian Cannabis Clinic in St. Catharines, and left with a prescription for dried marijuana, which her mother can fill from a federally licensed producer after returning to their Airdrie, Alta., home."

 

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full article found here;  http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/canada/story/1.3228520

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how monsterous are these doctors who want to forcibly change someones treatment regime for a non toxic plant?

 

dont see these muffin makers going to court to protect children on any of these prescriptions that are toxic and kill children everyday to overdose, do you?

 

funny, the hipocracy.

 

sorry/ was reading this linked story on the bottom of your article grass.

www.cbc.ca/m/touch/canada/edmonton/story/1.3207451

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""The last thing I did was grab that (higher THC-dose) oil and rub it on his gums — and the seizure stopped.""

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many parents are forced to make their own oil.