Good news. Millie, cause celebre, is getting bette

Good news. Millie, cause celebre, is getting better with MMJ treatments in Colorado. For over a month, we've been following the Millie Mattison case on this board. Millie is the Nashville, Tennessee toddler suffering a living hell of nearly constant seizures since birth, etiology unknown. MMJ being illegal in Tennessee, the parents were at the mercy of Big Pharma and conventional medicine. They tried everything including adult doses and combinations of a number of Big Pharma drugs. Nothing worked, and the "treatments" made Millie's life and her parent's struggle to save her even more of a nightmare:

"Millie Mattison sees a neurologist at the Neurometabolic Clinic at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital every three months. Between visits to Cincinnati, Millie frequents the emergency room at Vanderbilt. But the cause of her seizures is still unknown.

She's endured intubations, blood transfusions, spinal taps, MRIs, CAT scans, genetic testing and stints in the pediatric intensive care unit, one due to kidney shutdown from an anti-seizure ketogenic diet. She's been on as many as 11 medications at one time and relies upon a feeding tube. Her current medication, Sabril, leaves her lethargic and has severe potential side effects, including blindness.

"One study we looked at said that if two anti-epileptics don't work, there's a 10 percent chance that any of them will work," Penn says. "If four don't work, there's a 0.8 percent chance. We've been on six. Nothing has really helped that much. She sleeps 20, 22 hours a day — there's no way she can build any muscle tone or development skills."
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In desperation the parents pulled up stakes, quit their jobs, sold their house, and moved Millie and their other children to Colorado where MMJ/MJ is legal. That was in January. Now, The Tennessean reports that medical cannabis is the only thing that has helped Millie's condition.

Stories like this have changed and continue to change the politics and public perception of medical cannabis. SKTO/Berkeley Bio/PJ are in the sweet spot of the MMJ revolution.

"Nicole Mattison holds her daughter, Millie. In January, the Mattison family moved from Nashville to Colorado to gain access to medical marijuana, which has been the only thing to work against Millie's seizures."

"Penn and Nicole Mattison moved from Nashville to Colorado last month with their 22-month-old daughter, Millie, and their 7- and 10-year-old boys. The cost of the primary treatment for Millie’s seizures was $60,000 a month, and the medicine was ineffective. The cost of a month’s supply of medical marijuana, which is helping, is $150. "

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20140222/OP.../302220004

For past stories and discussion of the Millie Mattison case and its relation to Big Pharma and MMJ, see:

http://investorshangout.com/boards/message?id=1185248

http://investorshangout.com/boards/message?id=1187856

http://investorshangout.com/boards/message?id=1187878

http://investorshangout.com/boards/message?id=1185172

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