Patients with severe epilepsy who took a liquid form of a marijuana extract saw the number of seizures decline by half, while few suffered side effects, according to the early results of a study led by a renowned neurologist at Saint Barnabas Medical Center. The developments are sure to be followed closely by a number of New Jersey families whose children have Dravet syndrome, a potentially deadly form of epilepsy, and have seen Colorado strains help hundreds of kids. Parents there are buying dried cannabis from one of the three state-sanctioned medical marijuana dispensaries and manufacturing their own cannabis oil.
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