Georgia Governor Signs Medical Marijuana Bill
Georgia governor signs medical marijuana bill – The Coxes can rest more comfortably living in Georgia now that their 5-year-old daughter can get the marijuana extract she needs.
“This means the world to us,” said Haleigh Cox’s mother, Janea Cox.
Gov. Nathan Deal signed a bill Thursday that will legalize low-THC cannabis oil for certain “medication-resistant epilepsies,” while creating an infrastructure, registration process and research program for the drug. (THC is the primary psychoactive substance in marijuana.) The bill is called Haleigh’s Hope Act.
Haleigh was having hundreds of seizures a day, and the five drugs prescribed for her treatment were instead of helping,seemed to be exacerbating her condition. Her parents moved her to Colorado to take advantage of the legal medical marijuana in the hopes of saving her life. They put her on a regimen of cannabis oil which led to a tremendous improvement in her condition.
So far 23 US states and Washington DC, have legalized medical marijuana. Studies have shown that marijuana is effective in a wide range of diseases, such as AIDS, asthma, arthritis, cancer (nausea), glaucoma, and multiple sclerosis.
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