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In March, one mother traveled to Colorado to get a bottle of cannabis oil in hopes of easing the agonizing pain her 15-year-old son has lived with for the past three years. [...] "It stopped the pain and stopped the muscle spasms," Trey said. "It was helping me go to school until it then got taken away and then school was really hard again." It was taken away when his teachers asked why he was doing better in school. "I said 'Well, I gave him an oil that we'd gotten from Colorado,'" Angela recalled. "'It's derived from a marijuana plant.' And then you could feel the tension in the room." A week later, the sheriff's department confiscated the oil and county prosecutors charged Angela with child endangerment and requiring child protection. If convicted, she could face up two years in prison and $6,000 in fines. "It's asinine," Angela said. "I didn't hurt my son; I was trying to prevent him from being hurt." Read More |