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This Entrepreneur Left a Fortune 500 Company to Develop Medical Marijuana That Fights Epilepsy

Submitted by Marijuana News on Tue, 12/06/2016 - 08:04

When David Sparer arrived at his Airbnb in Venice, Italy, he encountered an unsurmountable challenge: the spiral staircase. He was debilitated by his arthritis. His friend, the founder of Los Angeles–based cannabis company the Clear, gave him some cannabidiol (CBD) to put under his tongue and on his feet. The next day, Sparer toured all around the city with less pain than he’d had in 10 years on Naproxen, a powerful anti-inflammatory that significantly damaged his liver. 

He was converted to the powers of CBD.

Soon thereafter, Sparer gave up his 35-year career and high-profile position at a Fortune 500 company to help expand the Clear. His 28-year-old son, who was diagnosed wtih epilepsy since he was 2 years old, is now taking the Clear’s cannabidiol tincture to manage his seizures. His 88-year-old mother swears by the CBD balm for her arthritic knee. And his brother, who had stage III Hodgkin Lymphoma,...

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