The use of cannabis to treat epilepsy and other neurological conditions has been studied for a number of years. It has been hotly debated too.

This is Sam. He’s my son. His epilepsy caused him to have up to 100 seizures a day. After seven years we were out of options. Our last hope: an untested, unproven treatment. The only problem? It was illegal.

A school district board in El Paso County Colorado approved “Jaxs’ policy” which allows therapeutic marijuana products at its schools.

For the first time in his son’s short life, J.J’s father Jonathan has hope J.J. will one day speak to him.

Francie has left temporal lobe epilepsy. A few years ago, a neurologist suggested cannabidiol (CBD) oil, an extract of the marijuana plant that is not psychoactive.

“Jayden’s life was being tortured by pharmaceutical drugs and from seizures,” said Jason David, father of 7-year-old Jayden who suffered from the seizures caused by his dravet syndrome nearly every day of his life until he was about five.

While epilepsy has not been shown to harm to one’s intelligence, there is a growing concern that frequent seizures and the side effects of certain medications might.

However, cannabis extracts are also remarkable at healing problems stemming from traumatic brain injuries, including seizures. No person exemplifies that potential better than Debbie Wilson.

Judge Katherine Cooper of Maricopa County this weekend made an extensive ruling of a lawsuit that permits 5-year-old Mesa boy Zander Welton, and those with similar conditions, legally able to use cannabis extracts to help treat their severe seizures from epilepsy.

A six-year old South Carolinian girl, Mary Louise, is suffering from pediatric epilepsy. Fortunately, she lives in a state where she can access cannabis in oil form. This is her story.

“Medicinal cannabis is saving Jeremy’s life. Such a statement seems rather dramatic doesn’t it? Honestly, there is no other way to say it,” says Jeremy’s mother, Lyn.

“A tribute piece to Charlotte Figi, a medical cannabis and CBD pioneer who inspired the name of the medical cannabis strain Charlotte’s Web.”

“As medical marijuana, including CBD oil, becomes legal in many states, more parents are turning to it to help their sick children despite how limited the science on its effects is.”

“Is marijuana bad, or could it be good for some? CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta spent a year traveling around the world to shed light on the debate.”

While frequently touted as a folk remedy for spasticity, marijuana is only occasionally mentioned with regard to other neurological disorders. Perhaps people with movement disorders, epilepsy, or Alzheimer’s disease derive little benefit from marijuana, but it may also be the case that relatively few patients with these conditions have tried it.