Apparently a high school student who uses medical marijuana to help prevent seizures has been expelled from school as a result of their zero tolerance drug policy. This is yet another example of policy having to catch up to medical marijuana laws. Clearly this teen has a medical need to use this medication. The patient lives in Colorado Springs. The story did not list his name or the name of the school. READ ON…

I recently evaluated a 52 year old male patient who suffered from Nocturnal Seizures and had been placed on Dilantin (Phenytoin). He said that although the medication was working to reduce the amount of seizures he suffered from severe fatigue and “zero appetite”. He was coming for a recommendation to use medical cannabis as he has been using it with “amazing results” and wanted to “be legal”.