A 6 year old girl has a strand of marijuana named after her! Why?

A 6 year old girl has a strand of marijuana named after her! Why?

When she was only 3 months old, Charlotte Figi had her first seizure. Unfortunately, these seizures would continue through her childhood, and they only seemed to get worse and more frequent as time went on.

For her distressing parents and the doctors they asked on numerous occasions, there didn't seem to be a cure. Charlotte was suffering from what is an incredibly rare condition called Dravet Syndrome.

Charlotte's seizures would sometimes last up to two hours, and she was frequently going to the hospital.

Out of options, Charlotte's parents - who initially voted against a bill to allow medical marijuana use in their state, applied for a medical marijuana prescription for their daughter.

A strand of marijuana originally called R4 would later treat Charlotte, causing her seizures to stop almost entirely.

Instead of having multiple seizures per hour, she was only having a handful of them every single month. The marijuana strand that was used to treat Charlotte became known as Charlotte's Web, and is used to treat other patients with Dravet Syndrome

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