http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2015/06/marijuana/sides-text

Reports like these only deepen Meagan's frustrations with what she has come to regard as the imbecility of federal marijuana laws that put her at risk of arrest for transporting a drug that "wouldn't get a mouse high" across state lines. "It's unacceptable," she says, "that we're allowing our citizens to suffer like this."

But the Patricks are in a good place now -- happier than they've been in years. "We have Addy back again," Meagan says. "If I wasn't living through this, I don't know that I'd believe it myself. I don't feel like cannabis is a miracle cure. But I feel like it should be a tool in every neurologist's toolbox, all around the country."

-Meagan Patrick, who with husband Ken moved the family to Colorado to treat 2 year old daughter Addy's epilepsy.

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As Kane (Nolan Kane, evolutionary biologist at University of Colorado, Boulder) leads me around his lab, I see excitement on his face and on the faces of his young staff. The place feels almost like a start-up company. "So much of science is incremental," he says, "but with this cannabis work, the science will not be incremental. It will be transformative. Transformative not just in our understanding of the plant but also of ourselves -- our brains, our neurology, our psychology. Transformative in terms of the biochemistry of it's compounds. Transformative in terms of it's impact across several different industries, including medicine, agriculture, and biofuels. It may even transform part of our diet -- hemp seed is known to be a ready source of a very healthy, protein-rich oil." Cannabis, Kane says, "is an embarrassment of riches."

[Edited on 7/28/2015 by robslob]