Everything You Need To Know About CBD
At five years old, Charlotte Figi stopped laughing.
While an average child laughs around 300 times a day, Charlotte temporarily lost her ability to communicate due to her lifelong battle against a rare and severe form of epilepsy—Dravet syndrome.
Dravet syndrome affects roughly 1 in 30,000 infants around the globe. Though most Dravet patients begin their lives as healthy as non-epileptic children, development quickly begins to regress after the first few months. In infants as young as 3 months old, intense seizures overtake the body, causing them to lose consciousness and convulse for up to a few hours at a time.
The Figi’s, desperate to find relief for their daughter after years of rushed trips to the ER, complications from experimental medications, and being told that they’ve reached “the end of the line”, made a decision that would ultimately spur a movement and, more importantly, bring their daughter back to life.
The Figi’s decided to treat their daughter with cannabidiol (CBD), one of the primary compounds found in the marijuana plant.
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