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The use of medical marijuana to treat autistic children is the focus of an April 7 panel discussion in Grand Rapids. The panel includes attorney Michael Komorn, president of Michigan Medical Marijuana Association, Christian Bogner, M.D., who has a child affected by autism, along with other...

The state legislature's Public Health Committee approved what might be considered one of the most controversial proposals put before them in decades: medical marijuana for children. The bill, which now moves to the House for a vote, would give minors with severe epilepsy and terminal...

"They're basically using my kids as a pawn to take away freedoms I fought for." Disabled Navy veteran Raymond Schwab moved to Colorado last year to free himself from addictions that grew out of the pharmaceuticals prescribed by the VA to treat his service-related physical and psychological...

Joy O’Meara, of Trumbull, can’t keep track of the times she’s made emergency calls for her 7-year-old son, Jamison, but she won’t forget the moments when she held his seemingly lifeless body and began CPR. O’Meara and Jamison, in a wheelchair and a helmet, joined dozens of parents and others...

On Wednesday, Connecticut's Public Health Committee held a public hearing to discuss a bill legalizing cannabis oil for minors. The bill would only allow the drug in an oil form, containing no more than 0.3 percent THC. The marijuana could not be smoked, inhaled or vaporized. Doctors could...

On Wednesday, lawmakers discussed whether or not to allow medical marijuana use by children with serious illnesses. The Public Health Committee took up the proposal on Wednesday morning. The state has already shown a willingness with a similar bill already in place for adults. Proponents said...

A Texas mom is fighting to give parents of autistic children the right to utilize medical marijuana as a treatment for their kids. It's just one of the issues we're hearing from marijuana advocates in town for the Southwest Cannabis Conference. Thalia Michelle isn't just trying to change...

To most people, Caleb Thomas. looks like an average 13-year-old. But intense seizures everyday of his life has robbed him of that normalcy. When we first met Caleb's mother Tracie back in 2014, she was at the end of her rope - living in and out of the ER while trying to find her son a...

In the 1930s, Americans were introduced to "Reefer Madness," perhaps the most over-the-top anti-marijuana propaganda film ever created. The plot centers on a group of clean-cut high school students lured into trying marijuana. And, of course, the teens become addicted and things go downhill...

Tens of thousands of Care2 petitioners have signed a petition asking Kansas officials to return a veteran's children who were taken away by Child Protective Service. This case is particularly heartbreaking, and reveals many flaws in our legal treatment of medical marijuana. The case concerns...

Several lawmakers say they would support legislation allowing children to participate in the state’s medical marijuana program, a measure that could be reintroduced this year. The state made medical marijuana legal in 2012. To qualify, a patient must be 18 or older. Last year, the state...

Dozens of Victorian children with severe epilepsy will soon be able to test a cannabis-based drug in the hope it will treat their seizures. The Austin Hospital in Melbourne is recruiting 60 children with intractable epilepsy to participate in a trial of cannabidiol (CBD) produced by an...

When Raymond Schwab talks about his case, his voice teeters between anger and sadness. "People who don't understand the medical value of cannabis are tearing my family apart," says the Kansas father of five and US veteran, who has a prescription for marijuana in neighboring Colorado, where it...

A small number of children with drug-resistant epilepsy will soon be able to access a new cannabis-based drug in New South Wales which is showing promise in relieving the symptoms. The pharmaceutical drug, Epidolex, is still in a trial phase and has not yet received full approval from...

The family of a Gulf War veteran suffering PTSD lost custody of their youngest kids after moving from Colorado, where treatment with medical marijuana is legal, to Kansas, where pot is illegal. They have seen their children three times since last April. Veteran Raymond Schwab and his wife...

Marijuana is seen as a wonder drug by people who suffer chronic pain and seizures, although critics are wary of its hallucinating side effect. To prevent the negative effects of cannabis, scientists have tried extracting specific non-addictive components from marijuana to assess their health...

Marijuana is seen as a wonder drug by people who suffer chronic pain and seizures, although critics are wary of its hallucinating side effect. To prevent the negative effects of cannabis, scientists have tried extracting specific non-addictive components from marijuana to assess their health...

Epilepsy is a brain disorder that can cause seizures and affects about 460,000 children aged 0 to 17, CDC estimates. This week, two new studies that show how a marijuana-derived oil may be effective in reducing seizures in children with epilepsy are to be presented at the American Epilepsy...

A study of children exposed to recreational drugs in the womb has turned up the surprising result that marijuana can improve how they see moving things. Children exposed to marijuana were 50 percent better at the global motion task - detecting movement of signal dots against the background...

A study of children exposed to recreational drugs in the womb has turned up the surprising result that marijuana can improve how they see moving things. Children exposed to marijuana were 50 percent better at the global motion task - detecting movement of signal dots against the background...