Girl Can Attend School With Her Cannabis-based Medicine, California Court Rules
The parents took the school district to court. The school district argued that while Brooke made social and intellectual progress attending a preschool, federal and state law prohibited students from having medical cannabis on school grounds. The medicine has been a life saver, according to Brooke's family and her doctor, who testified in court that Brooke cannot function without it. If treated quickly, Brooke's seizures may not have an immediate side effect, according to her physician, Dr. Joseph Sullivan, the director of the Pediatric Epilepsy Center at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in San Francisco. The "cumulative effect of hundreds of seizures over time results in developmental stagnation and intellectual disability," according to Sullivan's testimony. Brooke was having 20 seizures a month when she first saw him for treatment. Dravet Syndrome has left Brooke with speech and language delays, behavioral and developmental delays and problems with movement...