While the battle over medical marijuana rages on in the Georgia state capitol, the decision to legalize the drug is very clear for the Sievert family of LaGrange.
“You don’t want to say it’s a miracle drug, but that’s what it is,” said Vince Sievert.
Sievert’s 20-year-old daughter, Miranda, has been taking a strain of medical marijuana, called R4, since November 2014.
After being diagnosed with epilepsy in 2012, Sievert said his daughter was having between 30 to 50 compact seizures a week, sometimes more than 20 in just one day.
It got so bad, the Sieverts had to pull Miranda out of Troup High School and home school her. Sievert said she was on several different anti-seizure medications that weren’t working for her and had horrible side effects.
Sieverts reached out to state Rep. Allen Peake. Peake is the House majority caucus secretary and treasurer. He also represents Ga. District 141 and is the author behind the medical marijuana legislation in 2014, which was stalled before a final vote. After speaking with him and other families about the benefits of using medical marijuana, Miranda and her mom packed up and moved to Aurora, Colorado.
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