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?
epileptic dogs or put charlotte in a medically induced coma so her brain and body could rest. for paige, those were not good options. but maybe, just maybe, marijuana now was. but she was about to find out how hard that would be. this doesn t go to the pharmacy and pick up your medicine. there was no protocol. when we come back, what will the figgies do? and what would you do if this were your daughter? thank you orville and wilbur. .amelia. neil and buzz: for teaching us that you can t create the future. by clinging to the past. and with that: you re history. instead of looking behind. delta is looking beyond. 80 thousand of us investing billions. in everything from the best experiences below. to the finest comforts above. we re not simply saluting history. we re making it.
depend willingiing on the at the day, sometimes within the first couple hit that alack lasted eight minutes but some have lasted much longer. and happen as often as 40 times a day. and like charlotte, he tried so many things before. by 16, chaz was taking these powerful addictive potentially deadly narcotics and muscle relaxants daely. like valium and morphine. it would be safe to say that that marijuana, what you have in your hand there, is better than all of those pills there in terms of treating? yeah. i m not as much of a zombie. i ve had 16, 17 attacks today and i m still sitting up talking to you. my first attack on all of these, i would be in the hospital. i m a firm believer that marijuana saved my son s life. chaz s father, shawn his quality of life now is a thousand times better than what it was when he was on the pharmaceuticals. quality of life that paige
epilepsy, she was having 300 seizures a week. each attack so severe, it had the potential to kill her. they had already tried dozens of high-powered drugs. we needed to try something else and, at that point in time, marijuana was that natural course of action to try. at home in colorado, searching for marijuana high in cbd, that s the ingredient some scientists think help seizures and low in thc. remember, she didn t want to get her daughter stoned. she found a small amount in the denver dispensecy. she was surprised that the owner even wanted it. they said it was funny, nobody wants it. nobody wanted it, it didn t have any effect. paige paid $800 for a small bag and took it home. i had a friend starting a business making medicine. i said, can you help me extract the medicine from this bag of
i had resigned myself. i don t think she s going to survive this. we ve seen her flat line in the hospital. we ve said good-bye. you re listening to matt and paige figgie, describe their own daughter. what would you do if this were your child? charlotte figgie had an extreme form of epilepsy. her body was so frail that any seizure could kill her. with no traditional treatment to try and the clock ticking away, her parent decided to try marijuana. charlotte was just five years old. you need a card in order to get the cannabis from a pharmacy. doctors prescribe it. you need two doctors in colorado to get the card for juvenile or child. it was hard. we were the first young child and they said no. everyone said no, no, no. certainly her age played a role. dr. alan shackle foed is a