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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 Patient use of cannabis-based oils a new issue in recent Memorial Hospital changes 🌿Patient use of cannabis-based oils a new issue in recent Memorial Hospital changes
A week before her daughter's surgery, Alicia Stier said Memorial Hospital Central officials told her to keep one seizure medication home: cannabis-based oils.
The voicemail left her scrambling.
"It's just like any other medication for seizure control," she said. "You don't drop, cold-turkey, a seizure med. That's never a good idea."
The hospital later softened its stance - telling her it would make a final decision Monday on whether to allow her daughter to receive the oil, called Charlotte's Web, while in the hospital.
The confusion highlighted a side effect of Memorial Hospital's decision to take over all pediatric operations from Children's Hospital Colorado at the Boulder Street campus after a wide-ranging state and federal investigation into the two hospital systems.
In short: Will Memorial Hospital, which had no previous policy on the oils, allow parents to administer them during hospital stays?
On Monday, Memorial Hospital's board of directors will...
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