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Old Order Mennonite family turns to medical marijuana to treat six-year-old daughter’s seizures

Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 07/14/2016 - 08:44

They don’t own a car or a computer. They don’t even have a phone.

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Postmedia filesThe mennonite family declined to comment for the story, but their daughter is much healthier with the medical marijuana treatment, the clinic that helps them procure it said.

But when an Old Order Mennonite couple from northern Huron County, north of London, needed to control seizures in their six-year old daughter, they turned to a form of medical marijuana.

When the hard-to-get cannabis oil medication almost ran out, a London clinic scrambled to provide them an alternative supply.

Using medical marijuana may seem like a “stretch” for the ultra-traditional religious sect, says one observer at a Mennonite liberal arts college in Southwestern Ontario.

The most conservative of Mennonites living in Ontario, marked by their dark clothing and...

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