would change her life forever. hi, baby. when we come back, matt and paige figgie, finally give their charlotte, marijuana. the results are shocking. [ male announcer ] pepcid® presents: the burns family bbq. guys, you took tums® a couple hours ago. why keep taking it if you know your heartburn keeps coming back? that s how it works. you take some tums®. if heartburn comes back, you take some more. that doesn t make any sense. it makes plenty of sense if you don t think about it! really, honey, why can t you just deal with it like everybody else?
by someone, try it. no way. not in a million years, no. but in this area, marijuana is far from fringe. do you want island sweet? medical dispensaries are everywhere. people are smoking in private clubs. and public festivals. but none of this is for matt. he is a military man and marijuana would be a career-ender. i grew up in wisconsin, a well-loving family. i was educated that that s a drug. you don t do that. and i never did. but decades ago, marijuana was a medication prescribed by doctors and dispense bid pharmacies. this is harry j. but that all changed in 1930. henry anslinger, for him public enemy number one. you guessed it. marijuana. this guy, saw how he could increase the budget of his
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yellow. she was talking. even walking. she said please. but these stories, they are not without their skeptics. one of the country s two hospitals dedicated to gervae syndrome in florida, they said there is no evidence that cannabis is effective for the treatment of epilepsy. american academy of pediatrics also opposes cannabis as does the national institute on drug abuse. it is such an amazing turn of events. that it can t be a fluke. but i do still wonder. do you still wonder too, matt? hell, no! you know it s working? it is working great. you just look wonderful. and charlotte s doctor, alan shackle ford also agrees. yet his commitment to medical marijuana has drawn criticism. he has even been called dr. feel
rub her and hug her and say, i m so glad you survived through the night last night. matt had been deployed to afghanistan. and the only thing he could do to help was start scouring the internet. and he stumbled on to this video of a child using marijuana. how is everything going? four days without seizure. i m like, wow, having success. this is interesting. it is natural. and while he couldn t ever imagine taking marijuana himself, he was now in the stunning position of recommending it for charlotte. i was like, we need do this. and i said, i don t know. and then, charlotte s condition got worse. 300 seizures a week. almost two every hour. she was not talking or moving. basically cat tonic. as a last resort, doctors wanted to prescribe a powerful veterinary drug used on