Making Medical Cannabis History

By Mary Biles, ProjectCBD.org

In the recent annals of medical cannabis history, a defining moment came in 2013 when CNN Health Correspondent Sanjay Gupta reported on how the seemingly miraculous antiseizure effects of cannabidiol (CBD) transformed the life of a five-year-old Colorado resident, Charlotte Figi. Where 17 other anti-epilepsy medications had failed to control Charlotte’s grand mal seizures, a CBD-rich cannabis oil extract brought them down to almost zero.

Suddenly, arguing that cannabis had no therapeutic benefit became untenable and medical cannabis acquired a new legitimacy – even if the U.S. government is still playing catch-up seven years later.
As fate would have it, Charlotte and her devoted parents were lucky to get some prescient advice from an unsung hero. Without the willingness of a self-confessed “conservative” physician to recommend high CBD/low THC cannabis for Charlotte, we might still be living in a far more hostile medical cannabis environment.
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That physician is Alan Shackelford, MD.

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