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Family moves to Colorado, says marijuana dramatically improves 3-year-old girl's severe epilepsy

Submitted by Marijuana News on Fri, 05/22/2015 - 08:59

DENVER (ABC News) -- An Ohio family moved 1,200 miles to get a medical marijuana derivative for their 3-year-old to give her some relief from her seizures, and they say it's working.

Addyson Benton began having tiny seizures when she was just 9 months old, her mother, Heather Benton, told ABC News. Her eyes would glaze over and she would jerk as if she was catching herself falling asleep. Soon, the seizures got worse, doctors learned that Addyson was having more than 1,000 a day, and they diagnosed her with severe intractable myoclonic epilepsy, Benton said.

"It was just a nightmare," Benton said, adding that the seizure medications didn't work and made Addyson strangely aggressive or sleepy. "We could not find anything to control them and they were getting worse."

The Bentons were watching a documentary about marijuana that prompted them to move to Colorado to get medical marijuana for...

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