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Marijuana Helps 6-Year Old Beat Severe Seizures, Replaces Pharmaceuticals

As if the medical marijuana industry wasn’t controversial enough—with opponents arguing it encourages drug addiction and crime and supporters citing years of research to the contrary—there are now children benefiting from it. While there are several cases across the country of children being given various forms of cannabis to treat disease and illness, the case of 6-year old Jayden David is getting a particularly heavy dose of attention, where marijuana helped the boy beat severe epileptic seizures.

Marijuana Replaces 22 Different Anti-Seizures Pills, Helps Prevent Seizures

Jayden suffers from something called Dravet syndrome—a form of epilepsy that results in frequent and painful seizures. In his…

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You may have heard of 76-year-old Vernon Hugh Bowman from Indiana who tenaciously took on Monsanto…

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Vermont seemed more likely than ever to become the first US state to mandate the labeling of genetically…

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