My Son Pioneered an Epilepsy Drug Derived From Marijuana. An FDA Panel Just Approved It
Yesterday morning a tall, lanky 16-year-old boy in a red polo shirt stood at a podium in front of a roomful of doctors, scientists, and regulators and told them about how a drug they were considering for approval had changed his life. \u201cI had seizures for 10 years,\u201d he said. \u201cMy parents tell me there were times I had seizures 100 times a day.\u201d Now, he said, he has been seizure free for nearly two and a half years. \u201cI can understand what goes on at school,\u201d he said.