Hemp oil, used to treat neurological disorders, comes from the cannabis plant. But don’t call it medical marijuana.
“People associate medical and recreational marijuana with THC, with a street drug, and with getting high,” Paige Figi says on a recent phone call. “This has none of those things.”
Figi, specifically, is talking about an oil derived from “Charlotte’s Web” — a strain of cannabis that saved her daughter, Charlotte, and now bears her name. Unlike common strains of marijuana, Charlotte’s Web contains very little (less than .3 percent) THC — the psychoactive substance that brings about marijuana’s distinctive high. Instead, the plant produces a higher concentration of cannabidiol (hereafter referred to as CBD), a chemical that has shown promise treating the most debilitating epilepsy in children. Charlotte, who has Dravet syndrome — a form of epilepsy with no cure — was suffering through 300 seizures a week before her treatment with the CBD-laden oil. Read more…
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