NY Times covers impact of medical marijuana in Colorado

The New York Times profiled the benefits of medical marijuana on children with seizures and patients with other maladies in Colorado.

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The other mother featured in the video, Heather Jackson, was so convinced by the potential of CBD that she is now the executive director of the Realm of Caring Foundation.

Ms. Jackson said her son, Zaki, who once had 200 seizures a day, still faces a host of developmental disabilities, and will probably need help for the rest of his life. But she said he had gone 14 months without a seizure. A pretreatment recording of electrical activity in his brain showed a heaving chaos of huge spikes and deep troughs. A readout taken several months in showed smoother rises and falls.

"It's really incredible," Ms. Jackson said in an interview. "For whatever reason, this has put his syndrome into remission."

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