The 11-year-old has up to 300 seizures a week and her parents want to use a low-THC strain of marijuana to help treat them, but since it's illegal in Florida, they fear the state could take her from them if they do use it. So now they're trying to persuade lawmakers to legalize the drug that's being used to treat children in Colorado.
"She's already been removed from one set of parents that she knew to be her parents. There's no way that we would consider doing something like that to her again," Holley Moseley said. "We're going to fight for her no matter what, from the beginning to making her ours to now seeing she gets the treatment that she needs."
After hearing their story and those of other parents whose children suffer from severe epilepsy, the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee approved a bill Wednesday that would allow medical use of a marijuana strain called "Charlotte's Web." The strain has low levels of THC, which makes people high, and normal levels of CBD, which is used to treat seizures. It marks the first time a Florida legislative committee has approved any form of medical marijuana.
