Doctors told her she wouldn’t live past 9 years old, but now this young girl is celebrating her 10th birthday thanks to Marijuana. Tatiana ’Tuffy’ Rivera suffers from Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome, a sever form of epilepsy. Traditional prescription medication treatment didn’t work, but cannabis did. Her father, Ricardo Rivera, tells NowThis, “She was on over 25 different combinations of drugs…we got to the breaking point when we almost lost her…she had a really bad seizure,” says Rivera, “…I knew we were going to have to do something different….so we turned to cannabis.” Her disease is dangerous and also debilitating - Children with LGS have difficulty with simple day-to-day tasks, and mental development is often impaired. But cannabis has given Tuffy a new lease on life. “When we began giving her cannabis, the very first day, she went seizure-free for the first time in three years” says Rivera. The family set up the ‘Tuffy’s Fight’ Campaign to educate people about Tuffy and the fight against epilepsy, and to help get medical cannabis to the people who need it.
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