Alyssa Loeffler plays with her 2-year-old son, Ozias, on May 31 at their home in Cedar Rapids. She says Ozias is a happy and energetic boy now that he uses CBD oil to quell his seizures. Use of the ...

Lisa Smith’s 14-year-old daughter, Haley, had run out of options. She was having roughly two dozen seizures a day and had tried “17 or 18” different pharmaceutical regimens, different diets, and an ...

A case study of 19 individuals with drug-resistant epilepsy who used cannabis oil found that the median duration of seizure freedom after starting treatment was 245 days. Five patients remained ...

NOTE: This article was edited to clarify a person who possess an Iowa medical cannabis card would still be allowed to possess CBD, whether purchased in Iowa or elsewhere. Anyone with questions about ...

Share on Pinterest CBD may not only help to reduce seizure-related symptoms in people with epilepsy, research shows. Rowena Naylor/Stocksy United Cannabidiol (CBD) has been approved for use in the ...

Amid all the attention on the government shutdown, the U.S. Senate quietly advanced language in the continuing resolution that would do something deeply harmful, and entirely unrelated to the shutdown ...

The use of cannabis plant extracts for the treatment of seizures dates back many millennia. Its effectiveness was imperfect; however, nothing else was available. The components of the cannabis plant ...

“When there’s nothing else out there to save his life, the FDA will approve an experimental medicine, and he’s been on it for almost three years,” Mrs. Hartman explains. The drug the FDA approved for ...