Medical cannabis is legally used across the country in 20 states. It has been approved to treat the symptoms of glaucoma, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, several forms of cancer, HIV/AIDS, drug dependencies, ALS, Crohn’s disease, diabetes and seizures.
The Rocky Mountain High medical cannabis company’s youngest patient was a three month old child suffering from an average of 20 seizures a day. According to Rocky Mountain High’s CEO, David Weisser, with the use of a small dose of a non-psychoactive CBD tincture the child became seizure free.
The use of medical cannabis, especially for infants, has been a controversial and polarizing debate since Proposition 215 legalized the use of cannabis for medical purposes back in 1996 in the state of California.