Marijuana-Based Medicines Are "Giving Parents Their Children Back"

NEW YORK CITY - With flicks like "Sister Act," "Jumpin' Jack Flash," and "The Associate" (a personal favorite and a film I believe is greatly underrated), comedic actress Whoopi Goldberg has made a career out of making folks laugh. But in one of those odd ironies of life, Goldberg was serious - even downright somber - during her appearance at a conference here on the last day of last month as she talked about the sorrow felt by the parents of epilepsy-afflicted children. "I know dozens of families with children with epilepsy. You see your child disappear," she said, referring to what happens after kids are prescribed traditional seizure medications. "But then you find something better... and the seizures go away." It was here when Goldberg experienced a mood shift - from somber to mad - as she addressed one of the most frustrating and sorrowful catch-22s in medicine today. I'm talking about the catch-22 that occurs when the solutions to medical maladies are kicked to the curb when our "elected elite" decide to politicize them. Now, we've addressed this frustrating conundrum here before in the area of chronic pain. You see, even though chronic pain is a growing, ever more costly problem here in the United States, elected officials in Washington and at the state level have so politicized pain medications that patients with real afflictions are finding it difficult to find treatment programs. It turns out childhood epilepsy sufferers are in a similar boat; Goldberg sketched out a similar scenario with childhood epilepsy. She noted that cannabidiol (also known as CBD) - which comes from the marijuana plant but does not have psychoactive effects like tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the chemical that gets users high - has been used with some success by parents in halting epileptic seizures in their children. But that success comes with a backlash. You have successes, Goldberg said, "and then, child services wants to take [the] child away. That is wrong." The actress didn't let up at all... Tags: trading strategies To get full access to all Money Morning content, click here About Money Morning: Money Morning gives you access to a team of ten market experts with more than 250 years of combined investing experience – for free . Our experts – who have appeared on FOXBusiness, CNBC, NPR, and BloombergTV – deliver daily investing tips and stock picks, provide analysis with actions to take, and answer your biggest market questions. Our goal is to help our millions of e-newsletter subscribers and Moneymorning.com visitors become smarter, more confident investors. Disclaimer: © 2018 Money Morning and Money Map Press. All Rights Reserved. Protected by copyright of the United States and international treaties. Any reproduction, copying, or redistribution (electronic or otherwise, including the world wide web), of content from this webpage, in whole or in part, is strictly prohibited without the express written permission of Money Morning. 16 W. Madison St. Baltimore, MD, 21201. The post Marijuana-Based Medicines Are "Giving Parents Their Children Back" appeared first on Money Morning - We Make Investing Profitable .