SAN FRANCISCO -- Five-year-old Jayden David suffers from a rare form of epilepsy. In his short life, he's taken two dozen different kinds of medication and has been rushed to the hospital in an ambulance 45 times.
The young boy's life, however, slowly began to improve when he started using medical cannabis to ease his chronic pain and seizures.
"He sings and smiles like a normal child now," Steve DeAngelo, executive director of Harborside Health Center, the dispensary that provides David with his medicine, told The Huffington Post. According to DeAngelo, the child has seen an 80 percent reduction in his symptoms and can now spend twice as much time at school. Harborside helped develop a specialized cannabis tincture for David that doesn't have the same "high" side effects marijuana is commonly known for.
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