Medical Refugees Leave Texas For Marijuana Treatments

Posted by | November 12, 2015 17:43 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics

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Those with medical needs who can’t get what they need in Texas are headed for Colorado.

She’s a 5-year-old girl living in a rented house in an eastern subdivision of Colorado Springs in the shadow of Pikes Peak. And she’s in Colorado because her parents fear that if they were living instead back home in Crosby, Texas, the kindergartner might be considered a felon.

Hannah Loew, a child who suffers from a severe form of epilepsy called Dravet Syndrome, is among dozens who have moved to Colorado to receive higher concentrated doses of marijuana, or cannabis oil, than their home states will allow.

Hannah has suffered multiple seizures daily all her life, and pharmaceutical remedies have never proven completely effective. So, a year and a half ago, Amber and Paul Loew and their three children loaded everything they own into a moving van and moved to Colorado Springs.

“We left everything,” said Amber Loew, so they could legally obtain cannabis oil they hoped would give Hannah a better quality of life.

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15 responses to Medical Refugees Leave Texas For Marijuana Treatments

  1. maggie November 12th, 2015 at 18:00

    medicine is medicine…if it reduces suffering and increases function and quality of life…the state demonizes anyone who is ill and needs medicine to function….

    • katkelly57 November 12th, 2015 at 18:50

      I know that mmj has helped me w/ a few medical issues, far better and safer than the Rx’s prescribed to me.

      I hope and wish it become decriminalized soon.

      • maggie November 12th, 2015 at 18:57

        yes fully decriminalized….because the health care system just has this huge gap in helping patients with chronic illness reduce physical suffering (or mental) and regain function….if you need to see the school nurse and get a flu shot…you are covered…if you are dying of cancer…you can get some heath care maybe…if there’s a chronic illness to manage….the health care system completely fails…

        • katkelly57 November 13th, 2015 at 02:24

          I lucked out w/my cancer trmt., the original hosp. where I was diagnosed wouldn’t do a thing as I was in limbo for one month w/my ins.

          Seattle Cancer Care Alliance stepped in and took care of me….very good care and I am eternally grateful.

  2. tracey marie November 12th, 2015 at 18:01

    Good parents, the government needs to step up and allow medical uses for the herb.

  3. rg9rts November 12th, 2015 at 18:12

    As if Texas cares about the sick

    • maggie November 12th, 2015 at 18:31

      i know man….they just want people to commit suicide by massacre if they have health problems…..texas thinks its the state’s duty to kill those people…;)

      • rg9rts November 13th, 2015 at 03:21

        They even have a fast track option in prison

  4. BillTheCat45 November 12th, 2015 at 19:51

    They are far better off than living in that backwards hellhole.

  5. Bunya November 12th, 2015 at 20:05

    I really hope the marijuana worked for her. I hear it is extremely helpful for people with chronic pain. Texas really needs to lighten up and allow the sale of cannabis, and it could do wonders for their economy. I hold out very little hope of this becoming a reality, given Texas’ stance on women suppression.

    • Kick Frenzy November 12th, 2015 at 21:27

      The oil has also been proven to be extremely effective in reducing cases like this, where there are multiple seizures every day.
      Like the one young girl who had hundreds of seizures every day, started with the cannabis oil and went down to only a couple.

      • pignose4.0 November 12th, 2015 at 23:19

        they named the plant that helped her Charlotte’s Web her name is Charlotte.

        • Kick Frenzy November 13th, 2015 at 21:45

          Thanks!
          I’d forgotten about that… it’s a lovely sentiment. :)

  6. Tommie November 13th, 2015 at 00:13

    Good move, since people will take your child away for almost anything!

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