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The subscription service is currently unavailable. Please try again later.Two-month-old Amylea Nunez made history at a Colorado hospital last week when she became the first patient there to receive cannabis oil as part of her treatment.
(Yes, cannabis — as in marijuana, pot or hemp.)
You see, little Amylea has spent the majority of her life inside a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU.) This is because of seizures that began a day after she was brought home from her December delivery in New Mexico. While doctors at Children’s Hospital in Aurora have been attempting to treat her rare form of epilepsy, the medications are causing damage to her liver.
Amylea’s mother, Nicole, researched alternative treatments and found Charlotte’s Web — a cannabis oil known to treat epilepsy in toddlers and children. Although the THC level is under 1 percent (so kids don’t get high,) the move is definitely controversial.
“I sat for a good three weeks fighting with the doctors and trying to talk them
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