NY Medical Marijuana Law Leaves Many Behind

Oliver Miller has become the face of the fight for New York state’s medical marijuana law. Now 16, he suffered an in utero stroke that affected his brain stem and left him with myriad disabilities, the most dangerous of which is severe epilepsy, or seizure disorder.

On his bad days, his seizures number more than 100. His desperate parents tried just about everything to find some relief for him. He’s currently on a cocktail of four drugs, plus an IV infusion every three weeks.

They have tried special diets and even a medically implanted device, and his condition worsened. “That’s just from the seizures,” his mother, Missy Miller, says. “That says nothing about the side effects or the complications he’s suffered from the side effects of the medications.” Those are as bad as if not worse than the seizures.

But one thing might help him: medical marijuana. And in...

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