Mother’s Plea for Pediatric Medical Marijuana in Connecticut

Can you imagine being a mother who has had to make countless 911 calls for her 7-year-old son?

From an article in the NewsTimes comes the story of Joy O'Meara, a courageous mother from Trumbull, who had to perform CPR on her son, Jamison, as he began to slip away. Jamison has intractable epilepsy, which comes with unstoppable seizures.

O'Meara and a large group of Connecticut parents gathered in Hartford this week seeking lawmakers to make pediatric medical marijuana legal, which has been proven to lessen the time and severity of childrens' seizures due to epilepsy.

Similar legislation was shot down last year. According to the NewsTimes, O'Meara explained to the legislative Public Health Committee the following:

The children in Connecticut deserve the chance to try this treatment. Future generations should not have to suffer when a life-changing, possibly lifesaving treatment is available to children in other states.

Susan Meehan, a Connecticut mother from Montville, CT, packed up her daughter, and moved to Maine where pediatric cannabis is legal according to wnpr.org. Her daughter, Cyndimae, suffers from Dravet Syndrome, and the pediatric marijuana is the only medicine that keeps the seizures at bay.

This poses the question. Should medical pediatric cannabis be legalized for situations like these?

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