It only took a second for Aileen Burger to decide to move her whole family across the country. It was a Wednesday, and doctors had just told her they couldn’t operate on 4-year-old Elizabeth’s brain to cure her intractable epilepsy. By Saturday, the Burgers, who hail from New York, were in Colorado, signing their daughter up for Charlotte’s Web, a strain of medical marijuana that’s changing the lives of kids with epilepsy.
Choosing to put your toddler on pot may not be the obvious decision for any parent, the Burgers included. But as Aileen told The Stir, it’s the only one that was right for their little girl.
“We decided to treat Elizabeth with medical marijuana because we had exhausted nearly all other available treatments,” she said simply.
