Thirty-five years ago an Israeli researcher documented the case for medicinal cannabis to treat epilepsy. It was one of these studies by a Prof. Raphael Mechoulam that Denver-based physician Dr. Alan Shackelford read when he was debating one of the hardest questions of his career:
Should he, could he? give a 5-year-old pot?
That girl, Charlotte Figi (pictured below), was fighting for her life. Cursed with a rare form of epilepsy called Dravet’s Syndrome, Charlotte had about 300 seizures a week, some bringing her to the brink of death. Her parents were at their wits end and wanted to try her on medicinal cannabis. They read somewhere that it might work
Should he, could he? give a 5-year-old pot?
Thirty-five
years ago an Israeli researcher documented the case for medicinal
cannabis to treat epilepsy. It was one of these studies by a Prof. Raphael Mechoulam that Denver-based physician Dr. Alan Shackelford read when he was debating one of the hardest questions of his career:
Should he, could he? give a 5-year-old pot?
That girl, Charlotte Figi (pictured below), was fighting for her life. Cursed with a rare form of epilepsy called Dravet’s Syndrome, Charlotte had about 300 seizures a week, some bringing her to the brink of death. Her parents were at their wits end and wanted to try her on medicinal cannabis. They read somewhere that it might work.
- See more at: http://www.greenprophet.com/2015/01/dr-cannabis-alan-shackelford-puts-medicine-into-cannabis-in-israel/#sthash.thPOcMqG.dpuf
Should he, could he? give a 5-year-old pot?
That girl, Charlotte Figi (pictured below), was fighting for her life. Cursed with a rare form of epilepsy called Dravet’s Syndrome, Charlotte had about 300 seizures a week, some bringing her to the brink of death. Her parents were at their wits end and wanted to try her on medicinal cannabis. They read somewhere that it might work.
- See more at: http://www.greenprophet.com/2015/01/dr-cannabis-alan-shackelford-puts-medicine-into-cannabis-in-israel/#sthash.thPOcMqG.dpuf
Thirty-five
years ago an Israeli researcher documented the case for medicinal
cannabis to treat epilepsy. It was one of these studies by a Prof. Raphael Mechoulam that Denver-based physician Dr. Alan Shackelford read when he was debating one of the hardest questions of his career:
Should he, could he? give a 5-year-old pot?
That girl, Charlotte Figi (pictured below), was fighting for her life. Cursed with a rare form of epilepsy called Dravet’s Syndrome, Charlotte had about 300 seizures a week, some bringing her to the brink of death. Her parents were at their wits end and wanted to try her on medicinal cannabis. They read somewhere that it might work.
- See more at: http://www.greenprophet.com/2015/01/dr-cannabis-alan-shackelford-puts-medicine-into-cannabis-in-israel/#sthash.thPOcMqG.dpuf
Charlotte went from 300 seizures a week to none.Should he, could he? give a 5-year-old pot?
That girl, Charlotte Figi (pictured below), was fighting for her life. Cursed with a rare form of epilepsy called Dravet’s Syndrome, Charlotte had about 300 seizures a week, some bringing her to the brink of death. Her parents were at their wits end and wanted to try her on medicinal cannabis. They read somewhere that it might work.
- See more at: http://www.greenprophet.com/2015/01/dr-cannabis-alan-shackelford-puts-medicine-into-cannabis-in-israel/#sthash.thPOcMqG.dpuf
. “I wasn’t intending on seeing her,” Shackelford recalls on a recent visit to Israel. “I had no experience with children. My oldest patient was 103 and the treatments were working well on older patients, including some with seizures, but I wasn’t sure it would be appropriate for a child of five.”
Shackelford then poured over a stack of Charlotte’s medical records: “I decided that Charlotte would surely die if we didn’t do something to help her,” he tells Green Prophet. “As a doctor we take an oath that if we can help someone we must do what we can –– ‘cure when possible, comfort always’.”
Charlotte’s mother had brought to him a stack of convincing medical records. Then Shackelford made an appointment at his office: “There I met a girl just over a meter tall. On the way she’d had a seizure in the car, two in the waiting room and two while I was evaluating her.
“These were grand mal seizures.
“I made extensive notes.
“Charlotte was unresponsive to questions. She couldn’t eat, couldn’t drink and because nothing was working for her, she as no longer on any medicines.”
It was worth a shot.
Now the question was how to dose and administer marijuana to a little girl. And where to find plants with high levels of CBD (cannabidiol) , but only small amounts of THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), the primary psychoactive compound found in cannabis? Based on ratios presented in the study Shackelford decided on 6mg/kilo (or 3 mg/pound) of Charlotte.
But Charlotte couldn’t smoke.
Normally growers in the Colorado area pride themselves on plants very high in THC, or the molecule that gets you high. This is not what the doctor wanted to give to a small child. Shackelford found a local grower that could supply a small amount to try. The ratios were 17 molecules of CBD to one molecule of THC but it cost an extraordinary $800 an ounce. This is 4 times the price of high-quality medical grade cannabis, which costs about $200 an ounce.
From this precious bit of plant Charlotte’s mom helped make an extract to give to her daughter.
Miraculously, “after the first dose the seizures stopped,” Shackelford reports. “She went from 300 seizures a week to none. But the family was concerned that they would have no more access to the drug.”
Cannabis strain called Charlotte’s Web born
Then a local group of marijuana growers, the Stanley Brothers from the area agreed to create an extract with the same high CBD content and low THC. Today this extract is called Charlotte’s Web and parents are moving to the Colorado area to access this treatment for children in similar situations.Continue reading: http://www.greenprophet.com/2015/01/dr-cannabis-alan-shackelford-puts-medicine-into-cannabis-in-israel/
Thirty-five
years ago an Israeli researcher documented the case for medicinal
cannabis to treat epilepsy. It was one of these studies by a Prof. Raphael Mechoulam that Denver-based physician Dr. Alan Shackelford read when he was debating one of the hardest questions of his career:
Should he, could he? give a 5-year-old pot?
That girl, Charlotte Figi (pictured below), was fighting for her life. Cursed with a rare form of epilepsy called Dravet’s Syndrome, Charlotte had about 300 seizures a week, some bringing her to the brink of death. Her parents were at their wits end and wanted to try her on medicinal cannabis. They read somewhere that it might work.
- See more at: http://www.greenprophet.com/2015/01/dr-cannabis-alan-shackelford-puts-medicine-into-cannabis-in-israel/#sthash.thPOcMqG.dpuf
Should he, could he? give a 5-year-old pot?
That girl, Charlotte Figi (pictured below), was fighting for her life. Cursed with a rare form of epilepsy called Dravet’s Syndrome, Charlotte had about 300 seizures a week, some bringing her to the brink of death. Her parents were at their wits end and wanted to try her on medicinal cannabis. They read somewhere that it might work.
- See more at: http://www.greenprophet.com/2015/01/dr-cannabis-alan-shackelford-puts-medicine-into-cannabis-in-israel/#sthash.thPOcMqG.dpuf
Thirty-five
years ago an Israeli researcher documented the case for medicinal
cannabis to treat epilepsy. It was one of these studies by a Prof. Raphael Mechoulam that Denver-based physician Dr. Alan Shackelford read when he was debating one of the hardest questions of his career:
Should he, could he? give a 5-year-old pot?
That girl, Charlotte Figi (pictured below), was fighting for her life. Cursed with a rare form of epilepsy called Dravet’s Syndrome, Charlotte had about 300 seizures a week, some bringing her to the brink of death. Her parents were at their wits end and wanted to try her on medicinal cannabis. They read somewhere that it might work.
- See more at: http://www.greenprophet.com/2015/01/dr-cannabis-alan-shackelford-puts-medicine-into-cannabis-in-israel/#sthash.thPOcMqG.dpuf
Should he, could he? give a 5-year-old pot?
That girl, Charlotte Figi (pictured below), was fighting for her life. Cursed with a rare form of epilepsy called Dravet’s Syndrome, Charlotte had about 300 seizures a week, some bringing her to the brink of death. Her parents were at their wits end and wanted to try her on medicinal cannabis. They read somewhere that it might work.
- See more at: http://www.greenprophet.com/2015/01/dr-cannabis-alan-shackelford-puts-medicine-into-cannabis-in-israel/#sthash.thPOcMqG.dpuf
Thirty-five
years ago an Israeli researcher documented the case for medicinal
cannabis to treat epilepsy. It was one of these studies by a Prof. Raphael Mechoulam that Denver-based physician Dr. Alan Shackelford read when he was debating one of the hardest questions of his career:
Should he, could he? give a 5-year-old pot?
That girl, Charlotte Figi (pictured below), was fighting for her life. Cursed with a rare form of epilepsy called Dravet’s Syndrome, Charlotte had about 300 seizures a week, some bringing her to the brink of death. Her parents were at their wits end and wanted to try her on medicinal cannabis. They read somewhere that it might work.
“I wasn’t intending on seeing her,” Shackelford recalls on a recent visit to Israel. “I had no experience with children. My oldest patient was 103 and the treatments were working well on older patients, including some with seizures, but I wasn’t sure it would be appropriate for a child of five.”
Shackelford then poured over a stack of Charlotte’s medical records: “I decided that Charlotte would surely die if we didn’t do something to help her,” he tells Green Prophet. “As a doctor we take an oath that if we can help someone we must do what we can –– ‘cure when possible, comfort always’.”
Charlotte’s mother had brought to him a stack of convincing medical records. Then Shackelford made an appointment at his office: “There I met a girl just over a meter tall. On the way she’d had a seizure in the car, two in the waiting room and two while I was evaluating her.
“These were grand mal seizures.
“I made extensive notes.
“Charlotte was unresponsive to questions. She couldn’t eat, couldn’t drink and because nothing was working for her, she as no longer on any medicines.”
- See more at: http://www.greenprophet.com/2015/01/dr-cannabis-alan-shackelford-puts-medicine-into-cannabis-in-israel/#sthash.H0Q6WNSn.dpuf
Should he, could he? give a 5-year-old pot?
That girl, Charlotte Figi (pictured below), was fighting for her life. Cursed with a rare form of epilepsy called Dravet’s Syndrome, Charlotte had about 300 seizures a week, some bringing her to the brink of death. Her parents were at their wits end and wanted to try her on medicinal cannabis. They read somewhere that it might work.
“I wasn’t intending on seeing her,” Shackelford recalls on a recent visit to Israel. “I had no experience with children. My oldest patient was 103 and the treatments were working well on older patients, including some with seizures, but I wasn’t sure it would be appropriate for a child of five.”
Shackelford then poured over a stack of Charlotte’s medical records: “I decided that Charlotte would surely die if we didn’t do something to help her,” he tells Green Prophet. “As a doctor we take an oath that if we can help someone we must do what we can –– ‘cure when possible, comfort always’.”
Charlotte’s mother had brought to him a stack of convincing medical records. Then Shackelford made an appointment at his office: “There I met a girl just over a meter tall. On the way she’d had a seizure in the car, two in the waiting room and two while I was evaluating her.
“These were grand mal seizures.
“I made extensive notes.
“Charlotte was unresponsive to questions. She couldn’t eat, couldn’t drink and because nothing was working for her, she as no longer on any medicines.”
- See more at: http://www.greenprophet.com/2015/01/dr-cannabis-alan-shackelford-puts-medicine-into-cannabis-in-israel/#sthash.H0Q6WNSn.dpuf
Thirty-five
years ago an Israeli researcher documented the case for medicinal
cannabis to treat epilepsy. It was one of these studies by a Prof. Raphael Mechoulam that Denver-based physician Dr. Alan Shackelford read when he was debating one of the hardest questions of his career:
Should he, could he? give a 5-year-old pot?
That girl, Charlotte Figi (pictured below), was fighting for her life. Cursed with a rare form of epilepsy called Dravet’s Syndrome, Charlotte had about 300 seizures a week, some bringing her to the brink of death. Her parents were at their wits end and wanted to try her on medicinal cannabis. They read somewhere that it might work.
“I wasn’t intending on seeing her,” Shackelford recalls on a recent visit to Israel. “I had no experience with children. My oldest patient was 103 and the treatments were working well on older patients, including some with seizures, but I wasn’t sure it would be appropriate for a child of five.”
Shackelford then poured over a stack of Charlotte’s medical records: “I decided that Charlotte would surely die if we didn’t do something to help her,” he tells Green Prophet. “As a doctor we take an oath that if we can help someone we must do what we can –– ‘cure when possible, comfort always’.”
Charlotte’s mother had brought to him a stack of convincing medical records. Then Shackelford made an appointment at his office: “There I met a girl just over a meter tall. On the way she’d had a seizure in the car, two in the waiting room and two while I was evaluating her.
“These were grand mal seizures.
“I made extensive notes.
“Charlotte was unresponsive to questions. She couldn’t eat, couldn’t drink and because nothing was working for her, she as no longer on any medicines.”
- See more at: http://www.greenprophet.com/2015/01/dr-cannabis-alan-shackelford-puts-medicine-into-cannabis-in-israel/#sthash.H0Q6WNSn.dpuf
Should he, could he? give a 5-year-old pot?
That girl, Charlotte Figi (pictured below), was fighting for her life. Cursed with a rare form of epilepsy called Dravet’s Syndrome, Charlotte had about 300 seizures a week, some bringing her to the brink of death. Her parents were at their wits end and wanted to try her on medicinal cannabis. They read somewhere that it might work.
“I wasn’t intending on seeing her,” Shackelford recalls on a recent visit to Israel. “I had no experience with children. My oldest patient was 103 and the treatments were working well on older patients, including some with seizures, but I wasn’t sure it would be appropriate for a child of five.”
Shackelford then poured over a stack of Charlotte’s medical records: “I decided that Charlotte would surely die if we didn’t do something to help her,” he tells Green Prophet. “As a doctor we take an oath that if we can help someone we must do what we can –– ‘cure when possible, comfort always’.”
Charlotte’s mother had brought to him a stack of convincing medical records. Then Shackelford made an appointment at his office: “There I met a girl just over a meter tall. On the way she’d had a seizure in the car, two in the waiting room and two while I was evaluating her.
“These were grand mal seizures.
“I made extensive notes.
“Charlotte was unresponsive to questions. She couldn’t eat, couldn’t drink and because nothing was working for her, she as no longer on any medicines.”
- See more at: http://www.greenprophet.com/2015/01/dr-cannabis-alan-shackelford-puts-medicine-into-cannabis-in-israel/#sthash.H0Q6WNSn.dpuf
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