they lost their sanctuary. this is the new face on the move, taking two vast pieces of territory from syria and iraq. they clearly want to dominate and control muslim lands in the middle east. they don t care whether those muslim lands are run by shia or sunni. they want that territory so they impose their ideology on those muslim lands. all right, sir, u.s. army vice chief of staff general jack king, thank you for talking to us more about this important topic. always appreciate your comments, sir. by the way, you can watch general jack king talking more on this topic tonight, tune in for fox news reporting iraq and the rise of a terrorist state, anchored by chris wallace, tonight 10:00 p.m. eastern and sunday 9:00 p.m. eastern time. well, a new law in florida legalizes marijuana use but not for everybody. a special strain of the drug can now be used by people suffering from conditions like epilepsy. i spoke with a family of a young boy who suffers from dra vai
very rare form of epilepsy. he was diagnosed at a very young age. and you have a dr. miller who takes care of you and has been taking care of you for a long time. he s a nice guy. what s he like? he s cool. he is cool. that s right. dr. segall, tell us what dravet syndrome is. dravet syndrome is a rare form of epilepsy, a chronic seizure disorders where people can have seizures for a few years or for their whole lives. dravet syndrome, typically the way it presents is a child is developing normally and within the first year they start having seizures with fever. they can be prolonged. the children develop multiple types of seizuress and are refractory to the medications. there are behavioral and development delays, movement and balance issues, orthopedic conditions, delayed language and speech issues. these are all worsened with every seizure. with little justin, brook, talk
but because marijuana is a schedule 1 substance and is illegal in our country, we don t have the option to try it. dr. segal, are you optimistic that if this were to be approved nationwide and that the limitations are lifted by politicians, that there s hope for people like justin? i m hopeful that we will be able to help these patients more than they are already being helped. anything we can do that can be helpful and safe i m very interested in. we need more information to make sure that s the case. kelly, only 1 in 20 to 1 in 40,000 people actually have dravet syndrome. for more information, go to epilepsy group.com and dravet foundation.org. julie, thank you for bringing that to our attention. my mother had epilepsy, but never anything like this. i can only imagine what a child goes through. and a mother and father. and three wonderful sisters. so good of you to bring it to our attention. raising awareness is really part of getting action in
dravet syndrome, it can worked if approved. we just need the government to cooperate. i think part of the problem is we need the studies we do for any other treatment to say how safe it is, how effective it is, what is the right combination, the mixture of the different chemicals from the plant, as we were just talking about. there are many parts of the plant. these are called kanab anoids. these are components specific to the marijuana plant. there s over 80 of them actually. the two most neuroactive would be cbd and thc. thc is the psycho active form, the kind you hear about in terms of the street drug for marijuana. and cbd from the animal studies seem to be very effective for treating epilepsy. it s possible that a high dose of cbd can be very effective in terms of treating seizures, but we need the studies to prove it. if anyone has ever seen a seizure, let alone watch your child have repeated seizures, multiple seizures every day, you would not want to be limited in what you
very few medical options out there. that s why i want to talk to you about medical myrrh marijuana, some 23 states including d.c. have approved this. florida the state you live in now has just approved a certain strain of it. why do you feel so strongly medical marijuana needs to be approved? i believe i really hope floridians think of it was a poe 0 terrible option to help someone that they may love. it may be their child. it may be their parent. but it can i want the full plant accessible for research. you don t want to be limited in a treatment for your child. you wouldn t want to get half of the prescription from the drugstore. you want to be able to have full access to the entire plant to research it and find out what is going to help. is it cbd? is it thc? doctor, that s the problem. the research hasn t been done. but there s research done in england that has actually shown for case fz epilepsy, possibly