It takes nearly 17 hours to drive from Bernie, Mo. to Colorado Springs. Brandy Johnson and her 10-year-old son Tres have just finished making the round-trip drive from their small Ozark hometown of just 1,200 people in the southeastern corner of Missouri to the Rocky Mountains so Tres could see a new doctor and the family could make plans to move. The Johnsons are preparing to become medical refugees. Although Missouri legislators recently passed a law allowing access to a potentially life-saving medication for Tres, the law is so restrictive he may never get a chance to try it in time if he stays. The law, HB 2238, was signed by Governor Jay Nixon in July in response to a wave of media surrounding children successfully being treated for intractable epilepsy with high-CBD cannabis in states with legalized medical use.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 16:44:47 +0000
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