A 12-year-old girl is spearheading a campaign to legalize medical marijuana across the whole country. Alexis Bortell said she and her family had no choice but to move from their Texas home to Colorado to treat her severe epilepsy. Now, her family and a handful of others are suing Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
"Ever since I've been on this cannabis, I've actually been seizure-free for – today it's 974 days, so we're coming up on 1,000. So I think that's pretty good," Alexis told CBS News. Alexis had seizures every few days.
Her parents said epilepsy medications didn't work, and there was even talk of brain surgery. But this seems to tame the seizure monster: an oil made from marijuana taken twice a day.
Alexis hopes the lawsuit will make medical marijuana legal across the country.
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