High Hopes: The Quest To Turn Cannabis Into A Potent Medicine

Marijuana shows promise in treating illnesses ranging from depression and addiction to arthritis and epilepsy.

Callie Seaman was 16 when she started smoking cannabis to control her epilepsy. The seizures that had started two years earlier were affecting her ability to function and, while she’d excelled at school until her diagnosis, her studies were now suffering.

That was back in 1997, when cannabis was still illegal throughout Europe even for medical use. Anyone who wanted to acquire some was forced to do business with a street dealer or rely on someone else to do so.

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