Cannabidoil: A Case Study
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Cannabidoil (CBD) is useful to counteract the psychoactive effects in patients who need treatment of a disease that responds to THC. In researching this component of cannabis, scientists discovered an incidental finding regarding benefits from high-CBD strains. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, once a skeptic of the use of medicinal marijuana, outright apologized on air for being "brainwashed by the government propaganda." (California NORML, 2015, p. 1) Dr. Gupta proceeded to report a miraculous story that broke in light a 5-year old girl named, Charlotte Figi. Charlotte suffered from continual grand-mal epileptic seizures caused by Dravette's Syndrome, a rare and aggressive form of pediatric epilepsy for which there are no effective medically-approved