B.C. parents seeking court order to treat severely ill baby with cannabis oil

VANCOUVER -- Michelle Arnold says she's seen cannabis oil save two lives -- hers and her husband's.

Now, she's fighting for the chance to see if it can save her four-and-a-half-month-old daughter, who is clinging to life in a Vancouver hospital.

"I can't just give up when I've seen hope," Arnold said tearfully outside B.C. Supreme Court on Friday.

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"If there is a medicine out there ... that can help her, that can make her my child, then I will do it. I will do whatever I can to give it to her."

Arnold and her husband Justin Pierce are both 21 and suffer from epilepsy, for which they take cannabis oil. They are seeking a court order to gain more control over medical decisions in the care of their baby.

The couple...

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