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Colorado parents, nonprofit leaders react to FDA approval of CBD-based drug

Before trying the cannabidiol-based drug Charlotte's web, Kim Shaw Clark said she was waiting for the seizure that would claim her son's life. Caden, now 14, tried more than a dozen medications - from antipsychotics to benzodiazepines - and underwent brain surgery during their years-long attempt to relieve the symptoms of his Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, a severe form of epilepsy. "Some of them he would have mild success, and the other ones he would just kind have none and just get all the yucky side effects," Clark said. As a last resort, she moved with her two sons to Colorado Springs in 2014 to try Charlotte's Web - leaving her husband in Atlanta, where he works as a longtime police officer overseeing the department's Read more on Colorado Springs Gazette

 

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