Charlotte Figi was a little girl from Colorado who was having 300 grand mal seizures every week. She had Dravet syndrome — a catastrophic form of epilepsy that had not responded to any pharmaceutical treatment her family and doctors tried. She was five years old and losing the ability to walk, talk, and eat.
In 2012, her parents turned to a high-CBD, low-THC cannabis extract as a last resort. Within the first week, Charlotte’s seizures dropped from 300 a week to just a handful a month. She started walking again. She started talking again. She started eating again.
In 2013, CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta — who had previously been skeptical of cannabis as medicine — aired a documentary featuring Charlotte’s story. It was watched by millions of Americans. Parents of children with similar conditions flooded into Colorado from across the country. Legislators could no longer ignore what was happening.
Charlotte’s story did not just change one family’s life. It changed public perception, drove state-level CBD legislation across the country, and built the momentum that led directly to the 2018 Farm Bill — the federal law that made hemp-derived CBD legal for all Americans.
Charlotte Figi passed away in April 2020 at the age of 13, during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. She never knew how many lives her story touched or how many people she helped by simply being herself.
Every person who uses CBD today — for pain, for sleep, for stress, for their dog, for their grandmother — owes something to Charlotte Figi. Her story is why this plant is accessible to you. We do not think that should ever be forgotten.
If her story moves you to try CBD for the first time, we would be honored to help you find what works. Call us at 352-350-0200 or visit us in Leesburg.
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