I wasn’t sure how correct they were in their information, but last week, I read an article that said medical marijuana could help with anything.
I took this as a blanket statement and made sure I took the article to my mom. We had been discussing medical marijuana and how many ways it could be used. I told her that many doctors thought of marijuana like the new prednisone, but it was safer. She didn’t believe me, but now I had the article to back me up. I had her read the article about medical marijuana, but it didn’t sway her one bit. She didn’t believe what she was reading, and told me that anyone could write an article like that. A talented writer could not just pen the article, but make it believable, even if there were no facts to support it. I knew she would never believe that medical marijuana was safe, but I hoped she would at least see that it could help with my seizures. I wasn’t sixteen yet, and I had no right to make my own decisions. The doctor told us that medical marijuana had a lot of substantiation in its value of treating seizures. Mom told the doctor he did not know what he was talking about and told him to up my medication, but he refused. He was worried about what a stronger dose of the medication I was taking would do to me. Yesterday, I had a seizure that had me in the hospital overnight. This must have scared mom because she was looking up the effects of medical marijuana on epilepsy.