12-Year-Old With Epilepsy Pushes Washington DC to Change Medical Marijuana Policy

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By Laura Romero, ABC NewsSep 29, 2019, 6:07 pm601 ptsTop
Zoey Carty was diagnosed with frontal lobe epilepsy when she was 6 months old. Zoey was having 10 seizures a day and, on the advice of her neurologist, she was treated with phenobarbital, a common drug for epilepsy. But Zoey’s mother, Dawn Lee-Carty, was unaware of the drug's side effects. Two weeks later,…

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