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This Little Girl Inspired An NFL Player's Cannabis Advocacy

Submitted by James McClure -... on Tue, 09/13/2016 - 08:28

Last week, the NFL's Derrick Morgan opened up about why he became a cannabis advocate. In an interview with NPR, the Tennessee Titans linebacker said he was inspired by Charlotte Figi, a nine-year-old girl from Colorado who became the face of medical marijuana due to her severe case of epilepsy.

Charlotte Figi has Dravet Syndrome, a form of epilepsy that is intractable - meaning it doesn't respond to medication. By the age of five, she was unable to walk, talk or eat because she was having 300 seizures a day and her body was shutting down. Every medication had failed, so the Figi family turned to a controversial treatment: CBD oil, a non-psychoactive cannabis extract that can treat pain and neurological dysfunction. Basically, it's a form of cannabis that doesn't get you high because there's no THC in it.

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