Mom: Marijuana can help children

LIMA — The issue of marijuana legalization in the state of Ohio has been a heated discussion to say the least, with people on both sides of the issue stating valid cases.

Former Lima resident Nicole Scholten has been a willing participant in that argument.

The 1987 graduate of Lima Senior, who now lives in Cincinnati, has an 11-year-old daughter named Lucy who has been diagnosed with intractable epilepsy. She has also been diagnosed with several other conditions, including cerebral palsy. Lucy suffers as many as 300 seizures in the course of a day.

Since she was diagnosed at the age of 4 months, she has tried 11 different drugs in various combinations, a ketogenic diet and a Vagus nerve stimulator implant. All the treatments have not helped, with the side effects from the drugs often as bad as the seizures. The Scholtens have seemingly exhausted all their options.

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