Now this is cruel justice. A mother of two is about to be locked up in the slammer because she used life-saving cannabis oil to avoid her son from suffering horrifying seizures.
Angela Brown told the GoFundMe website her family’s nightmare started 3 years ago, when their son Trey, then 12, was hit in the head with a baseball causing a traumatic brain injury. The brain injury has caused severe tremors and episodes in which he causes himself harm.
We chose to treat him with medicinal cannabis oil, which saved his life, after all doctors failed him,” she explains. But possession of the oil is illegal. “I broke the law, but I did it to save my son… We are good hard working people that were just trying to save our son’s life. It has been a living hell since his injury and this just adds to our ever growing stress.”
The Browns found that the oil contained a miracle drug; the cannabis oil actually treated their son’s debilitating condition. They were extremely relieved. However, thanks to the state, this relief would be short lived.
Trey’s school found out about the cannabis oil treatments and reported the Browns to authorities. She was arrested and charged with two gross misdemeanor counts of child endangerment. She is now facing tow years in prison and a $6,000 fine.
The ironic turn to this story is that Minnesota is the 22nd state to approve medical marijuana and her son’s condition is covered under this provision. However, GoFundMe reports the new law does not go into effect until July of 2015.
If Dagga Oil as we would call it, or then Cannabis Oil can help Trey, how many other people are denied access to something so inexpensive with clearly favourable and life changing results.
