Are we supposed to conclude that weed would have kept her alive?
Prayers for Anna.
She didn’t die because she didn’t get pot......geesh.....idiocy.
Here is yet another issue where conservatives can rip each other apart. (sigh)
For a child to die is sad beyond measure, but did it occur to the parents that instead of trying to drag the bureaucratic behemoth into making the medicine they wanted legal, they could have just moved to a different state where it already WAS legal?
If a parent believes it is a matter of life and death that a certain substance be arranged for their child, wouldn’t you go and get it even if you had to move?
If they were so determined to get her weed, they could’ve gone to Colorado. Never rely on the government to accomplish things quickly (not that I agree with this stupidity).
Sad for the kid and parents, but if they were waiting on the government to come to their rescue, they took the wrong route.
RIP.
how many vets have died because 0bama’s VA put them at he back of the list?
how many people died due to fast and furious?
how many died on the trek from central America?
how many died in Benghazi?
how many died due to liberal abortion policies?
how many have died due to drugs being freely available?
how many....
meanwhile...
does ANYONE think it’s difficult to find weed in this country, legal or not?
go into any junior high and you’ll be able to find it
Then why didn’t these lazy SOBs go to Colorado where it is legal and get some instead of sitting on their butts and complaining while letting their daughter die???
(I don’t believe for a second that pot oil would have saved their daughter)
Right now marijuana is getting caught up in the “wonder drug disappointment”, that invariably happens when some new “wonder drug” enters the market. People truly hope that the new drug will solve all their ills, and though it might show some promise for just a few problems, that’s it. Not really a wonder drug.
In this particular case, a marijuana *derivative* might have worked for her, or not. Seizures cause damage, and over time, often lethal damage. While an anti-seizure drug might stop future damage, it cannot repair the damage that already exists.
Severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy also known as Dravet syndrome is a type of epilepsy with seizures that are often triggered by hot temperatures or fever. It often begins around six months of age.
So for perhaps 8 years, she has been damaged by the disease. Even odds that this was too long a time, so she was going to die anyway.
Importantly, remember that there are many Democrats who *want* babies and children to die, with their evil Malthusian mindset. It is not beyond them to try and delay and deny medicines that might help children live.
If the science was actually valid she already had access via prescription pills. If the dosage was the issue it can be reduced.
This is just a fluff piece to help civil plaintiff lawyers have access to insurance by shifting cases out of criminal and into civil courts. Criminal acts preclude claims on insurance. Decriminalizing drugs means the insurance companies (and those who pay for insurance) will now have to financially pay for the deeds of potheads.
Medical ANYTHING should be available in these cases. If it helps ease pain, seizures, what’s the big deal?
She is going to die but why not make it more comfortable. What’s the difference between this and the other drugs like morphine or whatever they use in hospitals?
I am not a smoker, but I hope something as simple as this would be available to make dying easier when I do go as cancer is a possibility.
Big Pharm & the Gov. wouldn’t like it if their cash cow were taken away.
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"As of late February 2014, according to the Stanleys’ Realm of Caring Foundation, 187 pediatric and 27 adult patients with epilepsy are taking Charlotte’s Web. There is an extensive waiting list."
http://www.epilepsycolorado.org/index.php?s=12108
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A number of posters on this thread owe the girl's family an apology.
Could the parents have moved to a state that allows such treatments?
I would have moved to the ends of the earth and done what ever I had to keep my kid alive
Just saying.
Rather than ridicule and take snipey shots at pot, some posters may want to do a little more research on the actual ingredients being talked about..
but that would be asking for some to think before posting.