Medical Refugees Leave Texas For Marijuana Treatments
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Those with medical needs who can’t get what they need in Texas are headed for Colorado.
She’s a 5-year-old girl living in a rented house in an eastern subdivision of Colorado Springs in the shadow of Pikes Peak. And she’s in Colorado because her parents fear that if they were living instead back home in Crosby, Texas, the kindergartner might be considered a felon.
Hannah Loew, a child who suffers from a severe form of epilepsy called Dravet Syndrome, is among dozens who have moved to Colorado to receive higher concentrated doses of marijuana, or cannabis oil, than their home states will allow.
Hannah has suffered multiple seizures daily all her life, and pharmaceutical remedies have never proven completely effective. So, a year and a half ago, Amber and Paul Loew and their three children loaded everything they own into a moving van and moved to Colorado Springs.
“We left everything,” said Amber Loew, so they could legally obtain cannabis oil they hoped would give Hannah a better quality of life.
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