You know, like many folks for a long time, I was pretty skeptical about the medical benefits of cannabis.

Yeah, I knew it had been talked about for a while.

It was touted as this sort of Wonder Drug. I wrote columns about it for Time magazine.

We were told that would help everything from chronic pain to mood disorders, even cancer symptoms.

But for me, the symptoms.

But for me, the evidence just wasn't lining up, and despite the buzz, I wasn't entirely convinced. Well, that skepticism for me began to change over a decade ago. Why? I started to look at the

evidence, not just from the United States, but from countries all over the world. I started

to look at the data data not just from federally funded

labs, but from privately funded labs as well. And I also met a little girl named Charlotte

Figgy. Charlotte was six years old when I met her.

She had Drove syndrome, a rare and extreme form of epilepsy.

She had been dealing with it all of her life and by the time she was five she was having 300 seizures a week.

Think about that.

That's almost two seizures every hour.

She wasn't talking, she wasn't moving, she was basically catatonic.

Now, her family tried everything for her as you might imagine,

but traditional treatments were not working,

and many of them had dangerous side effects.

They could actually stop her heart, her parents were told.

Doctors at one point considered putting her in a medically induced coma

to try and give her brain and body some rest.

And it was at that point, out of options,

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